More from Kurt Vonnegut

  1. Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
  2. I asked Rob Roy where he had gone to college. 'Yale,' he said. I told him what Helen Dole said about Yale, that it ought to be called 'Plan…
  3. 'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said. 'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'
  4. [Freedom of speech] isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.
  5. She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
  6. Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, I remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-s…
  7. Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
  8. Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

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