"Breakfast of Champions" Quotes

There's only one rule that I know of, babies - 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

Evolution cannot be hurried. Perhaps we could have evolved into something much nobler than we are. Perhaps.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

I had supposed that there was only one person in the world who had the power to dismiss me from her mind, and that was myself. I had never heard of anything like this.

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.