Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.
Kurt VonnegutMuch of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
Kurt VonnegutThey tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.
Kurt VonnegutWe're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.
Kurt VonnegutI love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have
Kurt Vonnegut