That’s the attractive thing about war, ” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.

The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.

How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

There were lots of things to stop and see - and then it was time to go, always time to go.

She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn't know.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)

Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.

Love the world as the mother loves her little child.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

You don't throw clothes away, because you know it's going to come back in fashion!

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.