Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.

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

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.