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The most important message of a crucifix, was how cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority. (Kurt Vonnegut)

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart. (Kurt Vonnegut)

One of the good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. (Kurt Vonnegut)

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. (Kurt Vonnegut)

A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. The Beatles did. (Kurt Vonnegut)

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak. (Kurt Vonnegut)

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. (Kurt Vonnegut)

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. (Kurt Vonnegut)

The most daring thing to do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. (Kurt Vonnegut)

How nice–to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. (Kurt Vonnegut)

This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Our government’s got a war on drugs. That’s certainly better then no drugs at all. (Kurt Vonnegut)

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of reward or punishment after I’m dead. (Kurt Vonnegut)

“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it.” (Kurt Vonnegut)

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck. (Kurt Vonnegut)

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. (Kurt Vonnegut)

There is a tragic flaw in our Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don’t you wish you could have something named after you? (Kurt Vonnegut)

And so on. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Take care of the people, and God almighty will take care of himself. (Kurt Vonnegut)

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place. (Kurt Vonnegut)

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy. (Kurt Vonnegut)

The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants. (Kurt Vonnegut)

They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this is a good argument against atheism. I think it’s a better argument against foxholes. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Lovemaking is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple he gave to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz. (Kurt Vonnegut)

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. (Kurt Vonnegut)

The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Comedians and jazz musicians are more comforting to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants. (Kurt Vonnegut)

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of reward or punishment after I’m dead. (Kurt Vonnegut)

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society. (Kurt Vonnegut)

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. (Kurt Vonnegut)

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Human beings will be happier, not when they cure cancer or get to Mars, but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. (Kurt Vonnegut)

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college. (Kurt Vonnegut)

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. (Kurt Vonnegut)

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. (Kurt Vonnegut)

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum was a strange dimension where everything became one and everything and one was right. Those who passed through it became Chrono-Synclastic Ifundibulated, and had strange side-effects. They could see in all three normal dimensions, but also in time. They were able to see the past, present, and future all together. Those who were caught in it or “unstuck in time” would appear at different places for certain amounts of time. A prime example of a victim was William Niles Rumfoord, who would appear on Earth every 59 days for one hour. He also would appear on Mars, Mercury, Betelgeuse, and Titan. He was able to see what was happening in different places at all times, but was not able to know everything. The sensation has been described as “being everywhere at once”.