If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

No matter what age any of us is now, we are going to be bored and lonely during what remains of our lives.

An educated human being teaches a child what a child can become.

You will find yourselves building or strengthening your communities. Please love that destiny, if it turns out to be yours—for communities are all that’s substantial about the world.

“Father, we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”