Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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

“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is ‘So it goes.’ ”

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

“ ‘I could carve a better man out of a banana.’ ”

Jesus was five feet and three and a half inches long.