They didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon.

“To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of un-differentiated nothingness: W…”

“Standing among all those tiny, wavering lights, I felt as though I were God, up…”

“...those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward bl…”

“I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky …”