I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.