Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

A committee of one gets things done.

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or another.

Too many people are going for self and not trying to help their communities.

While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.