October 26, 2011
"Like so many Americans, she was tying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."

— Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five

October 21, 2011
"If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still—if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice."

— Kurt Vonnegut, in Slaughterhouse Five