We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

Youthful strength is a great blessing.

He crushed her mouth in a searing, hungry kiss. A kiss that made her stomach drop away.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

The one thing I've learned about friends is that the good ones are rare.