The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She had overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

“The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,” she said, “would be to not be used for anything by anybody.”

“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.”