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"The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow."
"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."
"As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea."
"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!"
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
"He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so."