If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
Weitere Zitate von Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Zum Autor"Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't,' I said.'So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!"
"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops."
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
"As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea."
"He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government."
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."