“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt”
“So it goes.”
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”