I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?

It’s not how you start that’s important, but how you finish!

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night." -Jace, pg.283-

In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good, the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

I'm sick of Soup Of The Day, man. It's time we make a decision. I need to know what Soup From Now On is.