The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.