Many people need desperately to receive this message: "I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most p… - Kurt Vonnegut

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream. … Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie — but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia. That's what I want for me.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.