Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

Aimless life leads to depression

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.