Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Kurt VonnegutI chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
Kurt VonnegutJust 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 VonnegutTo the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
Kurt VonnegutI saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so.
Kurt Vonnegut