You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

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

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.