Timequake

I told Kilgore Trout at the clambake in 2001 about how my brother and sister had made Father ashamed of hunting and fishing. He quoted Shakespeare: “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child

If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have nerve enough to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts

The African-American jazz pianist Fats Waller had a sentence he used to shout when his playing was absolutely brilliant and hilarious. This was it: “Somebody shoot me while I’m happy

The funniest American of his time, Mark Twain, found life for himself and everybody else so stressful when he was in his seventies, like me, that he wrote as follows: “I have never wanted any released friend of mine restored to life since I reached manhood

When I got home from my war, my uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he bellowed, “You’re a man now!”
I damn near killed my first German.