"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor..."
"Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each o..."
"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'."
"And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you."
"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."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"
"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand."