Slaughterhouse-Five

"He was quiet for a while. 'I am not at liberty to discuss it,' he said finally."

"Mustard gas. First one breath of it you're paralyzed. You're there, see, watching your hands become blue."

"How nice to feel that the excitement of things to come so far transcends mere contentment."

"Everything is nothing until you make it something."

"Somebody had to write the story of the Second World War and I had to do it."

"That is my favorite book, The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevski."

"Congratulations. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."

"Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly so much as they are supposed to do."

"She was as devoid of wit as a sidewalk."

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

"The most important thing I have learned is that creative people are happiest."

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

"I have this disease late in life. It's a very nice disease. So progressive, so maybe I'll feel better as I go along."

"Listen to this one, baby"

"Take a look at the world you live in"

"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones"

"The most important thing I learned was that human beings are nothing but machines"

"Dresden after the bombing was like the moon now, nothing but minerals"

"Listen to this one...it's even more important than the one before"

"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains"

"Whenever I see an especially good-looking young woman, I have to stop myself from saying, 'If this terrible fire-storm catches you, you'll burn to death, so it isn't really important why you痴 you're upset'"

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

"I have this disease late in life. It's a very decent disease to have late in life. There is no pain"

"That was I. That was the author of this book."

"All this happened, more or less."

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

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

"The most important thing I have learned is that human beings are nothing but machines."

"It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre."

"I have this disease late at night sometimes, where I think that nobody likes me."