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.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

Sons of suicides seldom do well.

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.