Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

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

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

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.