Goodbye, Kurt

"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies – 'God damn it, you've got to be kind."'

- From Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr Rosewater. The novelist died on Wednesday, at 84.