Slaughterhouse-Five

"It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string."

"Congratulations. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you Earthlings see all of space."

"The only reason I'm going to talk to you now is that you're not paying me anything."

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

"Being American is to eat a slide of pizza"

"I have become unstuck in time."

"The moment is structured that way."

"Everything is beautiful if you let it be."

"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 old friends should always be cherished."

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

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

"The race has a brief time for love and adventure before they age and die."

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

"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 like bad fever thoughts."

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

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

"Make your soul grow."

"Being a Tralfamadorian, I was free to ignore the possibility of dying before I was born."

"That is my principal objection to life, I think: Nobody's here by accident."

"The only reason we die is because we accept it as inevitable."

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

"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.'"

"I have this disease late in life...I am only susceptible to those things that are out of proportion."

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

"That is my principal complaint about the Earthlings."

"I have this disease late at night sometimes, where I can't remember what the words mean."

"Any man who would break a man's toys has to answer to me."

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