Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.