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I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having suceeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke, and said at one point, “Isaac is up in heaven now.” It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in heaven now.” That’s my favourite joke.
Kurt Vonnegut: a man without a country, a memoir of life in George W. Bush’s America.
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How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut: A Man Without a Country
