One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.

The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.