Billy Pilgrim

"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather did, not screaming like the passengers in his car."

"I have become an Earthling who thinks creatures from other planets are common. I have become a human being."

"I would like to die in my sleep like my grandfather did."

"Dresden was as unreal as the moon."

"I know it is all very terrible. I know the war must be done somehow."

"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts"

"That is my favorite book"

"They should be more merciful"

"I see all moments simultaneously"

"I've thought of an absolutely stunning book"

"So I learned to live with the tremors in my soul"

"The past, present, and future are all equally real"

"I have been so many different people"

"Books are so strange"

"I will sleep now"

"All moments exist equally"

"That is beautiful"

"Tralfamadorians ignore earthlings"

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

"Practicing on the guitar is not dangerous."

"Bad luck follows anybody who hurts me."

"The truth is: I am tired."

"Every day I have been optometrist."

"One day when I was young, my father took me to the zoo."

"You know what I think the strongest emotion is?"

"I looked at the clock, and it was time to go to work."

"Everything we did on Tralfamadore was beautiful."

"Billy Pilgrim said, I would not trade my life for anything."

"The most important thing is the lonesomeness."

"Life on Tralfamadore was lovely."