As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. Votes: 7
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Votes: 7
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. Votes: 0
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. Votes: 0
Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'. Votes: 0
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Votes: 0
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. Votes: 0
Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way. Votes: 0
Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by. Votes: 0
Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs. Votes: 0
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise. Votes: 0
One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. Votes: 0
We're here on Earth to fart around Votes: 0
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Votes: 0
In the water I am beautiful. Votes: 0
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again. Votes: 0
...Skyscraper National Park Votes: 0
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals. Votes: 0
Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet Votes: 0
All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again. Votes: 0
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. Votes: 0
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic. Votes: 0
Rome wasn't built in a day. Votes: 0
History! Read it and weep! Votes: 0
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. Votes: 0
in nonsense is strength Votes: 0
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool. Votes: 0
Sons of suicides seldom do well. Votes: 0
God damn it, you've got to be kind. Votes: 0
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. Votes: 0
It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell. Votes: 0
All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me. Votes: 0
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. Votes: 0
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. Votes: 0
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. Votes: 0
[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town. Votes: 0
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think. Votes: 0
[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that. Votes: 0
A man without a home can't be lost. Votes: 0
All this happened, more or less. Votes: 0
And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet? Votes: 0
Be fruitful, and multiply. Votes: 0
Everything is nothing, with a twist. Votes: 0
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been. Votes: 0
Farewell, hello, farewell, hello. Votes: 0
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography. Votes: 0
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. Votes: 0
How embarrassing it is to be human. Votes: 0
How embarrassing to be human. Votes: 0
I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good. Votes: 0
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman? Votes: 0
In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them. Votes: 0
It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments. Votes: 0
Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you. Votes: 0
Life is no way to treat an animal. Votes: 0
Love is where you find it. Votes: 0
My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now. Votes: 0
Never index your own book. Votes: 0
Nice, nice, very nice. Votes: 0
Nothing in this book is true. Votes: 0
Oh, God â the lives people try to lead. Oh, God â what a world they try to lead them in. Votes: 0
Science is magic that works. Votes: 0
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies. Votes: 0
See the cat? See the cradle? Votes: 0
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. Votes: 0
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as Iâve said before, bugs in amber. Votes: 0
The big show is inside my head, Votes: 0
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. Votes: 0
The champagne was dead. So it goes. Votes: 0
The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. Votes: 0
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End. Votes: 0
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away. Votes: 0
Unhappy failures need not apply. Votes: 0
Until you die .. it's all life. Votes: 0
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Votes: 0
We are what we pretend to be. Votes: 0
We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love. Votes: 0
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them. Votes: 0
What memories for mud to have. Votes: 0
You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,âI am here, I am here, I am here. Votes: 0
You become who you pretend to be. Votes: 0
You have to go, but I have to stay. Votes: 0
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet. Votes: 0
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Votes: 0