Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
Kurt VonnegutAll the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
Kurt VonnegutMy country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
Kurt Vonnegut