His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

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