There was one [conversation with Dr. Hoenikker] where he bet I couldn't tell him anything that was absolutely… — Kurt Vonnegut

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.'

“Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”

A pissant is somebody who thinks he’s so damn smart, he never can keep his mouth shut. No matter what anybody says, he’s got to argue with it. You say you like something, and, by God, he’ll tell you why you’re wrong to like it. A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. No matter what you say, he knows better.