Two Quotes I Liked from "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

I'm reading the book for AP English, and these two parts just happened to catch my eye.

[QUOTE]Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bounds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
So it goes.

- Kurt Vonnegut[/QUOTE]

and...

[QUOTE]Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back and see Jesus. It worked, and he saw Jesus when Jesus was only twelve years old. Jesus was learning the carpentry trade from his father.
Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built by sunrise the next morning. It was a cross to be used in the execution of a rabble-rouser.
Jesus and his father built it. They were glad to have the work. And the rabble-rouser was executed on it.
So it goes.

- Kurt Vonnegut[/QUOTE]