“When we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will topple like a house of cards. Checkmate!” - Zapp Brannigan, Futurama

“…spurns the contemptible sort of well-being dreamed of by shopkeepers, Christians, cows, women Englishmen and other democrats.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before… He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” - Mark Twain

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut

“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” - Mark Twain