You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.
She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.
I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise.
Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Our government’s got a war on drugs. That’s certainly better then no drugs at all.
I said I wasn’t interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn’t really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.
Dwayne’s bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.