Slapstick

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

Idiot’s Delight—obsessively turning money into power, and then power back into money again, and then money back into power again.

“Fascists are inferior people who believe it when somebody tells them they’re superior,

I realized that nations could never acknowledge their own wars as tragedies, but that families not only could but had to.