People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
I’ve been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It’s just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody.
Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren’t a way to make a living.
We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.