How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.
Kurt VonnegutAny form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.
Kurt VonnegutThe name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
Kurt VonnegutI hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
Kurt Vonnegut