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.

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

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.

She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn't know.

Whatever you cannot commonize, you cannot conquer, commonize it to conquer it.

I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.