If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them. - Kurt Vonnegut

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.

The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage — and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still — I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.