When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

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.

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.