Regina Barnes

“My father died many years ago now - of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Oh, I have what a lot of people would probably call communistic thoughts,” said Eliot artlessly, “but, for heaven’s sakes, Father, nobody can work with the poor and not fall over Karl Marx from time to time—or just fall over the Bible, as far as that goes. I think it’s terrible the way people don’t share things in this country. I think it’s a heartless government that will let one baby be born owning a big piece of the country, the way I was born, and let another baby be born without owning anything. The least a government could do, it seems to me, is to divide things up fairly among the babies. Life is hard enough, without people having to worry themselves sick about money, too. There’s plenty for everybody in this country, if we’ll only share more.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“If this isn’t nice, what is?”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Timequake

“You know what my sister Allie used to say? She used to say, “Your parents ruin the first half of your life, and your kids ruin the second half.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect