There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

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.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.