Leah Haberman

“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Echolalia is a mental disease which makes people immediately repeat things that well people around them say. But Billy didn't really have it. Rumfoord simply insisted, for his own comfort, that Billy had it. Rumfoord was thinking in a military manner: that an inconvenient person, one whose death he wished for very much, for practical reasons, was suffering from a repulsive disease.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five