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

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

"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'."