“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

“Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.”

“Thomas Jefferson HighSchool [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one ofthe world’s greatest theoreticians on the subject of human liberty.”

“Roses are red,And ready for plucking,You're sixteen,And ready for high school.”

“Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?”

“The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.”

“Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.”