“Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker!”

“The books he and his supporters wanted out of the schools, one of mine among them, were not pornographic, although he would have liked our audience to think so. (There is the word "motherfucker" one time in my Slaughterhouse-Five, as in "Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker." Ever since that word was published, way back in 1969, children have been attempting to have intercourse with their mothers. When it will stop no one knows.)”

“The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.”

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”

“And on and on it went-that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man who was so full of loving echoes.”

“I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.”

“My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.”