Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.
Kurt VonnegutYou want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
Kurt VonnegutThere was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.
Kurt VonnegutThere is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.
Kurt VonnegutTo practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
Kurt Vonnegut