"So it goes."

"The smell of mustard gas and roses."

""You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books?" "No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?" "I…"

"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were t…"

""You were just babies then!" she said. "What?" I said. "You were just babies in the war — like the ones upstairs!" I …"

"I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. (p. 18)"

"It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody …"

"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacr…"

"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did loo…"

"This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flyin…"