In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.
Kurt VonnegutI love you, Eliza,โ I said. She thought about it. โNo,โ she said at last, โI donโt like it.โ โWhy not?โ I said. โItโs as though you were pointing a gun at my head,โ she said. โItโs just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably donโt mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, โI love you, tooโ?
Kurt VonnegutBe patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
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 VonnegutMake war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.
Kurt VonnegutI have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.
Kurt Vonnegut