Kurt Vonnegut

"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know."

"Listen carefully: Bill Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."

"I urge you to 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."

"The minute I stop doing this, I'm presumably dead."

"The most destructive idea in human history is the idea of eternal progress."

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

"Enjoy it while you can, and while you're it, help others enjoy it too."

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

"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.'"

"The future is just like the past, except longer."

"Everything is beautiful if you just take time to notice it."

"I wanted all things to be true and all things to be permitted."

"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, whatever, not to get ahead but to get happy."

"Tralfamadorians see all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."

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

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion."

"Intelligent people are always joining together to form groups which then fall apart."

"All this happened, more or less."

"So it goes."

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; man got to sit and wonder why, why, why."

"The only way your dreams are becoming reality is through vision, purpose, and concentrated effort."

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

"You don't have to be ashamed of asking for help. The person you ask for help is the strongest person around."

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

"What a terrible waste my life has been."

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

"We are here on Earth to help each other. I'm here to help you; you're here to help me."

"Hand in hand we stand, all across this land; we can make this world a better place in which to live."

"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."

"During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war."