How embarrassing to be human.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.