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Kurt Vonnegut
[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.
– Kurt Vonnegut
I asked my friends the other day, “Besides technology, can you think of anything else that has improved in our world over the last hundred year?” The answer I got was silence and uncomfortable smile.
It saddens me a little.
Where is home? I’ve wondered where home is, and I realized, it’s not Mars or someplace like that, it’s Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there’s no way I can get there again.
– Kurt Vonnegut
I wish I have his capacity to feel, and the ability to write how I feel. When I am reading a master, I wonder what goes on in his mind, and what has the world come to today. We are living in a time of prosperity and advancement, but the greatest writers are the ones who lived in anything but. They are the ones with inspiring stories to tell and their words are simple but powerful. Sometimes when I read them, I yearn for the same experience but deep down inside, I know that the peaceful life I have now is an expensive luxury that millions have given up their lives to fight for. No wonder science fiction and fantasy writers are earning big bucks nowadays, because we don’t have the extravagance of war-time experience anymore. Har har.
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind”
– Kurt Vonnegut
If I were to have kids some day, that is exactly what I will tell them.