Kurt Vonnegut quotes
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward. 
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. 
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. 
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. 
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. 
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. 
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. 
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. 
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. 
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. Kurt Vonnegut Love quotes ⇑
Love Quotes
Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. 
If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'. 
Kurt Vonnegut Short quotes ⇑
Short Quotes
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. All Kurt Vonnegut quotes ⇑
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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.
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."
I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I made up lies So that they all fit nice, And I made this sad world A par-a-dise.
People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.