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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Kurt Vonnegut

Parents

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

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.

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.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Kurt Vonnegut

Want

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Kurt Vonnegut

Earth

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.