“To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.”

“It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.”

“Kurt Vonnegut to Shakespeare:I asked him if he had love affairs with men as well as women, knowing how eager my WNYC audience was to have this matter settled. His answer, however, celebrated affection between animals of any sort:"We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk in the sun, and bleat the one at the other: what we chang'd was innocence for innocence." By changed he meant exchanged: "What we exchanged was innocence for innocence." That has to be the softest core pornography I ever heard.”

“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the exploration of space. The time was long past when one nation could seem more glorious than another by hurling some heavy object into nothingness.”

“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”

“Until you die .. it's all life.”

“He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment.”