George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography. - Kurt Vonnegut

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.