No art is possible without a dance with death.

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

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.