The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have e...
Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the army. After a brief period of training at a base in Wüzburg, I arrived at the front, which by that time had already crossed the Rhin...
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Look, I say we keep sitting on Boca! Walt Simonson: Jimmy, give it up. Give it up, it's all over with. If there was a deal, it's gone down by now. We blew it, we blew our warrants, and we blew our cover. Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Li...
She had the experience to suffer with discretion.
A poet could kill the dead.
What has been is no more. Change has come.
What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
Everyone has the abbility to hurt. It's the choice that matters.
God didn't create monsters. Monsters created themselves.
Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
Slicker than snot on a door handle.
I wonder what it's like to be dead.
I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.
There was no 'I' in team, but there was meat in team. And we were all dead meat.
The dead can read tears.
How quickly the dead faded into each other,
Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.
Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.
