It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
Kurt VonnegutSometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.
Kurt VonnegutPerhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.
Kurt VonnegutThe German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.
Kurt Vonnegut