Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it’ll be her wings not her face that’ll make my mouth fall open. I’ve already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.

She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.

The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that.

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

It's our flaws who make us who we are.

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.