I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
Kurt VonnegutThe only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
Kurt VonnegutWe were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
Kurt VonnegutHuman beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
Kurt Vonnegut