Kurt Vonnegut

"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is."

"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."

"All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment."

"As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs."

"Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them."

"I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife."

"I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours."

"I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us."

"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy."

"Science is magic that works."

"Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal."

"There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

"This country is being managed to death, being public related to death."

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."