Kurt Vonnegut

"The only people I knew who believed things were true simply because they were in print were librarians."

"Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to relate to people."

"We are such inquisitive creatures; we just can't help trying to figure out what things mean."

"Go back to your churches, your religions, your families, your country. Believe in something."

"Money is a ghost, a big ghost."

"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow."

"Laughter is good medicine, especially when you're not a doctor."

"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we diet."

"That's all I'm gonna say about that."

"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know yet."

"We have to continually jump off cliffs and develop our wings on the way down."

"Pause in your reading from time to time, and just think about your situation."

"Give your heart to the church or the state or the arts or some great person and you'll find you have to give your whole life to it."

"The truth is: the chief activator of human behavior is emotion, not intellect."

"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

"The universe is an awful big place, but maybe life is common."

"Bad chemicals are the cause of abominable behavior."

"It ain't with love but with laughter that the world will be saved."

"In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be."

"Dynamite was invented to make the Nobel Peace Prize possible."

"There are not many people to talk to, whatever you do."

"The man I should have been."

"Music can explain emotions that cannot be expressed in words alone."

"I wish that people who are conventionally considered success stories would admit that it was all a stinking accident."

"One of the worst mistakes you can make is to try to be too good all the time."

"Public libraries are temples of knowledge, and they should be free to all."

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class."

"We are assembled here of all people to say that we do not like war."

"And I think that is very good advice for writing, too: write about people."

"And I want to congratulate you on making it this long in the reading of this book."