So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra