The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

cussedness.

"You go up to a man, and you say, ’How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ’Oh, fine, fine—couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much."

There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed.

Everything that ever was always will be, and everything that ever will be always was."

I shall always be wherever I’ve been.

Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.

It was all so sad. But it was all so beautiful, too.

"It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."