How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.
Kurt VonnegutIf I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
Kurt VonnegutWhat he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.
Kurt Vonnegut[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
Kurt VonnegutWhat is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
Kurt VonnegutThat's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.
Kurt Vonnegut