Kurt Vonnegut, the author who gave us Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five (widely hailed as one of the most important books of the 20th Century), is dead at 84.
If you’ve never read any Vonnegut, you should…you really, really should. Personally, my favorite Vonnegut quote comes from the book that is the title of this entry, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater:
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
Well said, Kurt. Well said indeed. You’ll be missed.
So what’s your favorite Vonnegut quote, if you have one? Or alternately, your favorite Vonnegut book?
–Jer
EDIT: After a friend of mine told me this one, I have to say it’s a tie with the above quote for best ever:
“The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.”
