"if they give you ruled paper, write the other way." -JRJM

 

One thing was clear: Absolutely everybody in the city was supposed to be dead, regardless of what they were, and that anybody that moved in it represented a flaw in the design.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings, I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by ‘free will.’ I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five (Tralfamadorian)

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

The very toughest reporters and writers were women who had taken over the jobs of men…

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five