If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.