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

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.