Author Kurt Vonnegut Has Died

Kurt Vonnegut, 84, authored 14 novels during his career and is known for books such as, "Breakfast of Champions," "Slaughterhouse-Five," "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," & "Cat's Cradle."

Some of his quotes:

"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."

"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."

"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information."

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."