What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

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 trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.