“I thought this was trash.Of course it’s trash! says Bokonon.”

“As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.”

“The driver asked me if I would mind another brief detour, this time to a tombstone salesroom across the street from the cemetery.I wasn't a Bokononist then, so I agreed with some peevishness. As a Bokononist, of course, I would have agreed gaily to go anywhere anyone suggested. As Bokonon says: 'Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

“Maturity, Bokonon tells us, is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists”

“Come ci dice Bokonon: "Non si sbaglia mai dicendo addio".”

“And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.”

“I love you, Eliza,” I said.She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.”“Why not?” I said.“It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?”