The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.

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

That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.