"Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants.  An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it."

“The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.104, Open Road Media

“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.”

Source : "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

“Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.”

Source : "Aeschbacher". Talk-Show, Swiss Television SF1, April 4, 2008.

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”

“I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals?”

“You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.”

“There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.”