“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simp...” — Kurt Vonnegut Quote

“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.”

“Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end.”

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

“Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.”

“It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.”

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”

“Visto en perspectiva, como el tiempo del recuerdo vivido es tan corto, si juzgamos sabiamente, <>, como decía Borges.”

“We’re running out of time, he said.”

“Time (as is well known) sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a worm. But a man feels particularly happy when he doesn't even notice whether it's passing quickly or quietly.”

“I have willed”

“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don’t feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say ‘When I grow up,’ there is always an edge of disbelief—how could they ever be other than what they are?”

“You can hear it in the midst of the night”