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.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.