Billy Pilgrim

"That was I. That is me. That is the only me that will ever be."

"The most important thing I learned is that when you grow up you can't believe anything is true."

"That was I. That is me. That is the only me that will ever be. That is me."

"And I had to come home in a wheelchair."

"It's all a dream."

"It takes courage to ask for things."

"So I was paying for that mistake."

"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts."

"Somebody said to me, 'You know what Americans are? They're the people that, if you die, they make money off you.'"

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."

"That's one thing I know for sure: I'm coming unstuck."

"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"Now I am here, now I am there."

"That is so."

"Do you know why they took me in the saucer?"

"What was the use?"

"The most important thing I learned 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 all right to ignore somebody who has just died, because of the horrible things they have done."

"Tralfamadorians don't see people as buried and they don't see people as dying. They see them as if they're alive."

"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts."

"All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."

"Welcome to the machine."

"The most important thing I've learned here is that every person has to love every moment of life because those moments will never happen again."

"It is time for me to be dead."

"When the saucer lands, everybody can see it. So they're looking at the sky."

"The Universe doesn't care."

"Those who have passed through the doors of death have nothing more to fear."

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past."

"How nice—that we have a place in this universe for people like that."

"You know what I say to people when I hear they're getting a divorce? I say, 'How nice for you.'"