Leisure is the exultation of the possible.

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

[When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred …

Il faut vingt ans pour mener l'homme de l'etat de plante ou il est dans le ventre de sa mere, et de l'etat de pur animal, qui est le partage de sa premiere enf…

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.