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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.
People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.
And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.
We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.
It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.
Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.