It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.
Kurt VonnegutWhere's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.
Kurt VonnegutOnly nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
Kurt VonnegutHow 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 Vonnegut