My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.