I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, wh...
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very huma...
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I m...
Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't...
Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare.This world is not a vale of sorro...
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Chris...
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: C-Students from Yale.George W. Bush has gathered around h...
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
The only difference between
Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and th...
Tis better to have love and lustThan to let our apparatus rust.