Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.