How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

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.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.