Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.