If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had... - Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

"If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'."

"Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?"