In the nightmare of a warring world, it takes peculiar skills to get along. - Kurt Vonnegut

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.