Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

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.

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.

We all need to rededicate ourselves to making America great and making it a more perfect union.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

When your woman gives you the silent treatment, say you're sorry, or you'll find out how truly sorry you are when her monologue resumes.