A Man Without a Country

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You’re not expecting it.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.

I must respectfully disagree; an extended thought is well served through the use of a semicolon.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”