Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.
Kurt VonnegutExtenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
Kurt VonnegutI don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.
Kurt VonnegutGeorge W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
Kurt Vonnegut