Player Piano

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The two were inseparable, though their personalities met at almost no point. Together, they made an approximately whole man.

Paul missed what made his father aggressive and great: the capacity to really give a damn.

“I was just telling the Doctor here that my son couldn’t find any good reason for being alive, so he quit it this morning—with an ironing cord.”

history has a way of showing us what, in retrospect, are very logical solutions to awful messes.”