How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.

That’s the attractive thing about war, ” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.

How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

There were lots of things to stop and see - and then it was time to go, always time to go.

The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.