This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be. - Kurt Vonnegut

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

I figured things would be better in Washington, that I'd find a lot of people I admired and belonged with. Washington is worse, Paul—Ilium to the tenth power. Stupid, arrogant, self-congratulatory, unimaginative, humorless men. And the women, Paul—the dull wives feeding on the power and glory of their husbands.