The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three... - Kurt Vonnegut

"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"

"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."

"A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo."

"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."

"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference."