Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

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.

If you don't go through the shaking, you shall never be ready for the making.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

No place in this world is, as safe as my mother’s womb, And nobody in this world is, as loving as my mother.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one why bother to be humble about it?

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

I dream a lot about football and a lot of them have come true for me.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.