Kurt Vonnegut

1922 - 2007

Kurt Vonnegut was an American author known for his satirical, humanistic novels including "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Breakfast of Champions." His works often explore themes of war, technology, and the human condition, earning him a reputation as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

Another flaw in human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, p. 260, 1981

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.’

A Man Without a Country, p. 104, 2005

There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Mother Night, 1961

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