Monday, November 9, 1998
Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five and Hocus Pocus, spoke to a packed audience on Oct. 28 in the Tate Student Center. Some highlights:
On one reason behind high divorce rates:
“We don’t have extended families. When a husband and wife fight, it’s not about power, it’s not about sex, it’s not about money . . .he/she is simply saying, ‘You are not enough people! You are just one lousy person.’ ”
On religion:
“I am a humanist, and by being that I am honoring my mother and father, which the Bible says is a good thing to do. I try to act decently without any expectations of a reward or punishment in the afterlife, or any afterlife at all.”
On the desire for a plot in life:
“We expect life to be a story. Only stories are stories. The truth about life is that we don’t know what the good news is and what the bad news is. I don’t believe in heaven or hell, but I would like to ask God what the good news is, and the bad news.”
On computers:
“All that stuff is so redundant. I don’t mind getting up and walking to the shelf, and flipping through pages with my hands. We are dancing animals.”
--Ryan Crowe
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