In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.
Kurt VonnegutTime is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Kurt VonnegutI thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almightyโand sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.
Kurt Vonnegut[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.
Kurt Vonnegut