The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and t...
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
Roses are red,And ready for plucking,You're sixteen,And ready for high school.
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those...
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule tha...
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next
Fucking was how babies were made.
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him...
And what did the great British historian Edward Gibbon have to say about the human record so far? He said, History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of man...
Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
You think I'm insane? said Finnerty. Apparently he wanted more of a reaction than Paul had given him.You're still in touch. I guess that's the test.Barely — barely.A psychiatrist could help. There's a...
Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybo...
To be is to do’ — Socrates.‘To do is to be’ — Jean-Paul Sartre.‘Do be do be do’ — Frank Sinatra.
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man t...
The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort a...
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.