If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

No matter how corrupt and greedy our government and our corporations and our media and Wall Street and our religious and charitable organizations may become, the music will still be perfectly wonderful.

I think life is no way to treat an animal,

only nutcases want to be president.

big money and TV have disconnected every burglar alarm in the Constitution:

“We have to be constantly jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

“When things go well for days on end, it is a hilarious accident.”

“Hopelessness is the mother of originality.”