Kurt Vonnegut

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.'

So it goes.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Mankind has been making a mess of things for a long time.

You are a human being, and you should be allowed to make mistakes.

The only good thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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

What are people for? They are for each other.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

The America I grew up in was a country that made things. It made cars and steel and refrigerators and washing machines and television sets. Now we make money. We make money by moving money around.

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

You can't fight for your life and have a good time.

There is no order in the world, only arrangements.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

I have long suspected that the more a man is a man, the more he is a child.

How nice — to feel nothing, and to be a fair sample of a sturdy American boy.

You'll be the first to die, if you don't take a bath, you'll be the first to die.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.