Slaughterhouse-Five

"Everything is fine, and everybody is well, always and forever, all the time."

"Time isn't the issue. The issue is the moment."

"It takes courage to keep a promise in a society like ours."

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

"The most important rule of all is that you are never given a test you cannot pass."

"Poo-tee-weet."

"That is a crazy thing to say, but it is true."

"I am not going to tell you a story about what it is like to be kidnapped by flying saucers."

"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."

"You know what the first rule of the Tralfamadorian test is?"

"That is I."

"I wish you all luck."

"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."

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

"I have come to love death."

"It was so simple."

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

"Wide load."

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

"Every day, once a day, we tell the Earthlings that they can improve their lives by following the guidelines set down by Jesus Christ."

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

"Bunch of humans eating on plastic chairs in a Tralfamadorian zoo."

"Laugh or cry? Funny or sad? It's all in how you look at things."

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

"The Tralfamadorian sees all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."

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

"Of all the things to have written on my tombstone, I'd like it to be: 'We are healthy. So it goes.'"