Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
9 quotes
"That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do."
"In an extended family, anybody can bug out of his own house for months, and still be among relatives. Nobody has to go on a hopeless quest for friendly strangers, which is what most Americans have to do."
"A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health."
"Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamn lonely anymore."
"I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check."
"Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run."
"Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time."
"Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
"Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information." I would add to that, "All the same, Sir, I'm not persuaded that we did the best we could with the information we had. Toward the end there, anyway, we had tons of information."