The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd.
Kurt VonnegutEducate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
Kurt VonnegutI want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt VonnegutIt seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.
Kurt VonnegutIt was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
Kurt Vonnegut