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| Vonnegut in 1972 |
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
It’s perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It’s perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
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---‘... you’ve got to be kind.’" - Kurt Vonnegut
