My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

I never asked to be born in the first place.

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

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

Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.