Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.