
Tralfamadore, Åland Islands
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.
I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower, I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.