All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

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

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.