And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it’ll be her wings not her face that’ll make my mouth fall open. I’ve already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.

She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

If I am not I, who will be?

Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

Reach what you cannot

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.