Woke up to see my favorite author has died from brain injuries suffered during a fall two weeks ago. He was 84. His writing always struck me as totally original for blending wit, fantasy, absurdism and morality. He often wrote about beings from another planet, I believe, to have something to contrast people with. He seemed to speak for the human race to a vaccuum, with equal parts shame and pride. He also like to draw anuses.
Some of my favorite quotes:
"It used to be the whole point of smoking was that we were killing ourselves, and we didn't care."
"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
"1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them."
"By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas."
"The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart."
"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody."
"So it goes."
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