Kurt Vonnegut

“So it goes.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“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.'”

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'”

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

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

“The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.”

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

“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.”

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to be a remedy.”

“We could have saved the Earth but we were too damn cheap.”

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'”

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

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'”

“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.”

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”

“Science is magic that works.”