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.
Weitere Zitate von Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Zum Autor"The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin."
"I have no doubt that they'll tell you a lot of kind things about me when my back is turned. They may not have been behind the door when God passed out the pretty faces, but Heaven only knows where they were when He divided up the gratitude."
"...We took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE."
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."
"You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."
"When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed."