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

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.