KV is my literary hero

"I am going to tell you some news.
No, I am not running for president, although I do know that a sentence, if it is to be complete, must have both a subject and a verb ...
I am going to sue the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only twelve, I have never chain-smoked anything by unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown and Williamson have promised to kill me.
But I am now eighty-two. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."
-Kurt Vonnegut
A Man Without a Country