“As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.”

“Life is a dreary continuum made bearable by those moments of excitement. It's called feeling alive.”

“Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.”

“Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who had not allowed his doubt to curdle into cynicism, who, for all his dark prognostication, was a figure of tremendous hope. The evidence was in his books, which performed the greatest feat of alchemy known to man: the conversion of grief into laughter by means of courageous imagination. Like any decent parent, he had made the astonishing sorrow of the examined life bearable.”

“Money might not be able to buy happiness, but it made misery more bearable.”

“Thanks for being my best friend and making my life bearable. Oh, and sorry I fell in love with you for a while there.”