The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. - Kurt Vonnegut

If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative. What could be simpler?

Paul wondered at what thorough believers in mechanization most Americans were, even when their lives had been badly damaged by mechanization.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.