Kurt Vonnegut, Author, War Hero, passed away yesterday. The Greatest Living American author is no more.

Yahoo News, NY Times

He was always quotable:

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
"How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

For more:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/kurt_vonnegut.html
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Kurt_Vonnegut/
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

So it goes. Kurt's in heaven now.