Always stay in your own movie.
Look forward to being really in love for the first time. Look forward to behaving aristocratically without any outward proofs of your aristocracy. Look forward to having nothing but the dignity and intelligence and tenderness that God gave you - look forward to taking those materials and nothing else, and making something exquisite with them. (from The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut)
I could carve a better man out of a banana. -Theodore Roosevelt?
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected.
All these years, I’ve been opening the window and making love to the world. — Kilgore Trout, in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five
When it’s so hot you can smell tar cooking, your brain is cooking too. Don’t make important decisions in the heat.
You’re not a star just because you’ve always been a star. What have you done for me lately?
Everything there is to know about life is in The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostoevsky. - Eliot Rosewater in Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Imagine that every man or woman you pass or encounter is a Zen Master–each with her or his own method of teaching. Sometimes they will sense your respect for them, and will glance at you and grin. Take the dress and bearing of each individual as evidence of his or her style of expressing enlightenment. Listen to every scrap of conversation as a koan.
As you are walking the streets or riding a public conveyance, imagine to yourself that each person you look at, regardless of age, is your child. In the case of adults, of course, she or he is to be pictured as your grown child. Never mind if that makes you feel a hundred years old; age is of no consequence to a sage.
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