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

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.