“Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“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.”
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”