THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
Kurt Vonnegutall that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war
Kurt VonnegutHuman beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt VonnegutI still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Kurt Vonnegut