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

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

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.

The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.