Kurt Vonnegut

"Vegetarians are going to feel really stupid someday, sitting in their small, grave-like compartments."

"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only surprise us."

"Make your soul grow. It's worthwhile."

"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe in the God of Abraham Lincoln, of Socrates and of Jesus Christ."

"A writer has to guess, to hope, to trust and believe in the emotion of his work."

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."

"Mistakes can be profoundly good for you."

"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.'"

"We are here on Earth to help others. What the others are here for, I haven't the faintest idea."

"True intelligence is the ability to see the beauty in different perspectives."

"Piano playing is a form of direct line to the soul."

"To those who believe their passions make them freer, I would say they are mistaken."

"The human body can host 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells."

"Our awareness is all that lives and mourns and rejoices and raises children and plays music and reads books and loves in this planet."

"Money cannot buy health, but I'd not say money is unimportant for health."

"A decent way to behave is to pretend to be decent."

"Laughter or love or sleep will make any temporary hell into a permanent heaven."

"The future is just like now, only longer."

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

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

"My great-grandfather did not travel the world to see that I would waste my life."

"The only reason we tolerate life is because of the people we love."

"Unstuck in time."

"So it goes."

"Lose your temper and you lose the match."

"We are God's answer to that eternal question why do we exist?"

"Think of a training camp for astronauts, except the course never ended, just like life."

"Something or somebody has poisoned the water, or perhaps it was always poisoned."

"Maturity is becoming serious about small things and small about serious things."

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