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

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.

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

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.

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

I’m not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected the girl to be attractive.”If I hadn’t been so terrified, I would have been insulted.

Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.

At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.