Kurt Vonnegut

"Enjoy it, enjoy it."

"I urge you to reach out and grab the beauty of life."

"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go sleep-walking through the streets, like lunatics."

"All this happened, more or less."

"The future is always a surprise, but the past should not be."

"Thanksgiving is an emotional business."

"We are brought up to believe that if we are good, nothing bad will happen to us."

"Hear me out now."

"Being American is to eat a hot dog and have it be someone's business."

"Blah blah blah."

"That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

"I sleep five hours like a teenager—a very tired teenager."

"So I learned to listen to mothers on television."

"Any honest writer will admit that he writes for the money."

"You know what I wish? I wish that every human life could be successful."

"This book is made up of a lot of short clippings."

"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"Don't ever change just to impress someone."

"It is a mistake to think that there is no middle ground between despair and elation."

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously."

"People aren't going to change."

"I love you, and I miss you and I want you to go on."

"The second time around, I wasn't as happy."

"I've had a bad day, but that's not important."

"Believe me I am not my brother's keeper."

"Don't use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing."

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."

"I hate it that Americans make such a big deal out of racial differences."

"This is a terrible world we live in."

"There is this thing called imagination that we all have."