When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.
[Hating America] would be as silly as loving it, I said. It’s impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn’t interest me. It’s no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I...
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can’t believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pai...
There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of...
The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me.The big show is inside my...
The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod story...
Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.
Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each o...
It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses t...
It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everythi...
It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.
I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
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.
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.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.