Timequake

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?”

“If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have nerve enough to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.”

“He almost certainly killed people as well as a radio,” he said, “thus sparing them years of disappointments and tedium in civilian life. He made it possible for them, to quote the English poet A. E. Housman, to ‘die in their glory and never be old.’ ”

But as I have reported elsewhere, she said, “Just because you’re talented, that doesn’t mean you have to do something with it.”

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That’s how come I write so good.