profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. - Kurt Vonnegut

“The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,” she said, “would be to not be used for anything by anybody.” ... “Thank you for using me,” she said to Constant, “even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.”

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

He had only two moods: one suspicious and self-pitying, the other arrogant and boastful. The first mood applied when he was losing money. The second mood applied when he was making it.