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

" When pressed further Vonnegut also said that "They [suicide bombers] are dying for their own self-respect. The couple separated in 1970; that same year Vonnegut began living with the woman who would later become his second wife photographer Jill Krementz although he did not divorce Cox until 1979. Breakfast of Champions became one of his best-selling novels.

: /ˈvɒnɨɡət/; November 11 1922 – April 11 2007) was an American writer. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.