profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You're not expecting it.

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

You can’t write novels without a touch of paranoia. I’m paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.'Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

I think it’s important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.