Kurt Vonnegut

"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."

"Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick,""Huckleberry Finn,""A Farewell to Arms,""The Scarlet Letter,""The Red Badge of Courage,""The Iliad and The Odyssey,""Crime and Punishment,"the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"— are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?"

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"

"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."

"Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic."

"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"

"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference."

"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."

"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."(George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."

"You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three."

"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."

"Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician."

"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."

"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."