Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
Kurt VonnegutThe planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
Kurt VonnegutHer face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.
Kurt VonnegutWell, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!
Kurt Vonnegut