Billy Pilgrim

"Smoking too much and not exercising does not make a person live longer."

"I wish you all the best."

"One moment please. I am not able to see things the way you are able to see them."

"Money and the things that money can buy are wonderful."

"The only reason I'm tall is so I can see better at concerts."

"I have become unstuck in space and time."

"It was inevitable. It had to be this way."

"I urge you to pay no attention to it."

"Nothing ever goes away. We are always alive somewhere."

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

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

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

"Billy said, 'I am a very happy man, and I'm perfectly content where I am now.'"

"Billy said, 'I want you to know that I'm doing it, the last one, now.'"

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

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

"I have come here to tell you about the wonderful plans"

"I would have liked to be born a Tralfamadorian"

"Everything is meaningless, and therefore nothing matters"

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

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

"On Tralfamadore, they are 'two people paying attention to each other now, enjoying the present moment.'"

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."

"Why me? Why anything?"

"He had come to see that there is no free will."