Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., one of my favorite authors

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”

“Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism.”

“Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.”

"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled 'science fiction', and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."