I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful. — Kurt Vonnegut

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.

He faced the problem that complicates the lives of cannibals—namely: that a single victim cannot be used over and over.

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.