The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All...
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man.They don't make memories like that anymore
If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
History is merely a list of surprises,' I said. 'It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.
Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to t...
That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when act...
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
Self-taught, are you? Julian Castle asked Newt.Isn't everybody? Newt inquired.Very good answer.
Nothing in this book is true.
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 stone...
Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express eni...
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them...
Here is a lesson in creative writing.First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.And I realize s...
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.
Goodbye blue Monday.
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eigh...