Where'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 VonnegutHe was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
Kurt VonnegutTrout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.
Kurt VonnegutThe First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd.
Kurt Vonnegut