As quoted in "An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Carey Horwitz, Library Journal, Apr.Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States-and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death! All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values.
As quoted by James Lundquist in Kurt Vonnegut (1971).I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington.Introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes From the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed.High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of."Physicist, Purge Thyself" in the Chicago Tribune Magazine (22 June 1969).They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was.THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear. … That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap. I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat.
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. Quotes Various interviews High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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