You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
Kurt VonnegutOne of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.
Kurt VonnegutMy ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.
Kurt VonnegutHumanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
Kurt Vonnegut