You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.