Kurt Vonnegut

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."

"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"So it goes."

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder why, why, why; Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand."

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard."

"All this happened, more or less."

"The only way your dreams become reality is through commitment, hard work, and faith."

"I wanted all things to be free. That's my religion."

"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you."

"We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

"Hi ho."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"Enjoy it!"

"And I urge you to keep on being wry, forever."

"The future will either be green or not at all."

"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization."

"Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity."

"Probably the most dangerous thing in the world is to teach people to read and write."

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, nothing to do but miss youth."

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

"I have this disease late in life...it's forgetting the words that I want to say."

"What a terrible waste my life has been."

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

"The most important thing is the music."

"I urge you to do your dancing and singing and everything just as good as you possibly can the first time all the time."

"Writer, when you're young, you're very confident. It's like a marvelous wine."

"One of the few good things about modern times is that it is now possible for a boy and girl to innocently mistake a beautiful sexual experience for a romantic one."

"Unstirred coffee is unjust to the gravity of the situation."