The Sirens of Titan: A Novel

covet

The sermon of the panorama was that even a man without a friend in the Universe could still find his home planet mysteriously, heartbreakingly beautiful.

parvenu.

There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

"It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody," she said, "would be to not be used for anything by anybody."

To be punctual meant to exist as a point, meant that as well as to arrive somewhere on time.

desiderata.

Life was like that, Unk told himself tentatively— blanks and glimpses, and now and then maybe that awful flash of pain for doing something wrong.