Kurt Vonnegut

"The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news and the bad news is."

"Goddamn it, you've got to be kind."

"I wish that I could be as enthusiastic about something as cats are about lapses in human sensibility."

"Listen: Bibb Latimore had already told me that we were not going to be saved by politicians."

"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life worth living."

"And now comes an age of miracles and wonders."

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, nothing to do with it but pass it on to your kids."

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

"Unstuck in time, I am a tralfamadorian, you see."

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

"Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about."

"There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

"So it goes."

"People have to talk about something that makes them cry, besides money."

"Be patient with the works of men, and patient too with the works of God."

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

"A purpose of human life is to love who you want to love."

"What would be the point of my bitter, sarcastic commentary if I were not able to put it in a book."

"The culture you live in defines who you are."

"During the Christmas season, I try to provide an atmosphere of worship."

"We are experiencing a period in our lives when nothing wonderful will happen to us."

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, then finds himself in a position of power to use it."

"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor."

"The truth is that we are trapped, my friend. We are trapped."

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor little planet of ours."

"Break the chain of command and you have creativity."

"Farewell to a radiant friend."

"Say what you will about the long, weird future or the relatives in the madhouse—there is only the present and the material universe."

"Ideas on earth were badges, like the signs of fraternities."