I have to say this in defense of humankind: No matter in what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got there. Cold Turkey (2004)
History is merely a list of surprises. … It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down. Slapstick (1976)
Humor is a way of coping with real trouble. … My next book [Slaughterhouse Five] is a comedy. It is about the largest massacre in the history of Europe.
It was an appalling thought, to be so well-integrated into the machinery of society and history as to be able to move in only one plane, and along one line. Player Piano (1952)
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography. A Man Without a Country (2005)