Kurt Vonnegut died last night. Plenty of people will write tributes in the next few days, but few will be as good as what he already wrote himself:

I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, “Isaac is up in heaven now.” It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in heaven now.” That s my favorite joke.

— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005