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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice.Your attitude is your choice!

There will Be a Moment when Your eyes meet, and everything in the world will be simple again.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'