Kurt Vonnegut — "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you …"

"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

"The only way to be happy is to not think about happiness."

"I think that the human race is going to wreck itself, and it is important that you get rid of all the things that you really don't need and that you learn to appreciate the things that you have."

"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."