Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!