When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
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."
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
"You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."
"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."
"...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."