Billy Pilgrim

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

"So it goes, Billy said to his wife in the dream, I've seen my own death."

"I have this little pain in my chest"

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

"How nice to touch the sun again"

"The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains"

"I'm not mad. I just sat and cried"

"That is what I am. I am a time traveler"

"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber"

"I have this disease late in life. It's a very decent disease to have at my age."

"Poo-tee-weet?"

"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."

"You know what the good news is? I'm pooped. But so what? Everybody in the Universe is pooped at one time or another."

"It is just an illusion here on Earth that you can take your time."

"I have become a bum."

"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."

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

"The most important thing I have learned is that human beings should be kind."

"I have this disease late in life. It's the only disease I ever heard of. The disease is called Trout Fishing in America."

"So I learned to leave them alone."

"That is the only bad aspect of the Universe that I have to report."

"When I get to heaven I will ask for a rubdown."

"Yes, and I have seen the past, the present, and the future, and I am able to see how things always work out."

"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you see a landscape."

"Everything is beautiful now."

"That is a very Earthling thing to do, isn't it?"

"That was I. That was me."

"Congratulations. I'm a spastic. I'm spastic."

"Do you know what I was? Before the war?"