I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

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.

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.