Kurt Vonnegut

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Failure is no accident.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

Life is managed; it is not cured.