We don't piss in your ashtrays, So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals. - Kurt Vonnegut

He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines, by assuring them, with a perfectly straight face, that life was getting better and better, thanks to scientific thinking.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.