People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.