Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

In this world, you get what you pay for.

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

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war