There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
Kurt VonnegutThe trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.
Kurt VonnegutYou know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.
Kurt VonnegutShe broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
Kurt VonnegutYou want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
Kurt VonnegutWe went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Kurt Vonnegut