Regina Barnes

“Oh, I have what a lot of people would probably call communistic thoughts,” said Eliot artlessly, “but, for heaven’s sakes, Father, nobody can work with the poor and not fall over Karl Marx from time to time—or just fall over the Bible, as far as that goes. I think it’s terrible the way people don’t share things in this country. I think it’s a heartless government that will let one baby be born owning a big piece of the country, the way I was born, and let another baby be born without owning anything. The least a government could do, it seems to me, is to divide things up fairly among the babies. Life is hard enough, without people having to worry themselves sick about money, too. There’s plenty for everybody in this country, if we’ll only share more.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“What is sacred to Bokononists?" I asked after a while.
"Not even God, as near as I can tell."
"Nothing?"
"Just one thing."
I made some guesses. "The ocean? The sun?"
"Man," said Frank. "That's all. Just man.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“And then he called me the most offensive compound word in the English language.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

“I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle