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.

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.

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.

Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

There's nothing unmanly about surrender. It takes a brave man to give in.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Im the mold that grunge was grown in.