Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.