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.

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.

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.

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.

Happiness cannot be owned.It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it.

Worry divides the mind.

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I like filming in the UK - I'll sleep in my own bed, which I'm really happy about.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.