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Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away. (Kurt Vonnegut, “Bluebeard”)

This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Hvis man har købt et par bukser der umiddelbart ikke passer i vidden, skal man blot lade dem ligge i en skuffe i fire til fem år. Så er de skrumpet så tilpas meget, at man kan passe dem!

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. (Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five”)

Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. (Kurt Vonnegut)

“Later, when my personal life became complicated and full of unfortunate convolutions, worries about crab grass got lost somewhere. I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but up from the depths of the heart. Of course both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.” (Philip K. Dick)

No damn cat, and no damn cradle. (Kurt Vonnegut)

– jeg er ikke ret god til at pakke gaver ind ..!
– nej, hvor er jørgen clevin, når man har brug for ham …

He was a man who totally knew the meaning of beer. Beer was an open book to him. He knew every page of beer by heart. (Richard Brautigan)

Han havde et temperament som en afrivningskalender. (Walther F. Lake)

She was so beautiful that the advertising people would have made her into a national park. (Richard Brautigan)

“Are we magicians that we can boil a man in cold water?” (R.A. Lafferty, “Name of the Snake”, 1964)

– jeg har fået en prop i øret ..!
– ja, man skal ikke lytte til champagnen …

Det er med parforhold, som det er med arbejde. Når man har det, ville man egentlig hellere være fri, og når man ikke har det, ville man gerne have det alligevel. (Walther F. Lake, fra “Sagde jeg det ikke nok nok?”)

The most daring thing to do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. (Kurt Vonnegut)

– mit forhold til avast anti-virus begynder at ligne et ægteskab i de sidste krampetrækninger …
– hvordan det ..?
– den synes, der skal ryddes op hele tiden …

The grass pulled the dust over itself again and groaned. The junk reverted to junk. (R.A. Lafferty, “Horns On Their Heads”, 1976)

Her voice, delicate as it was, had a strength to it that made one realize why a teacup can stay in one piece for centuries. (Richard Brautigan, “Sombrero Fallout”)

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Når man har penge tilbage efter at have betalt sine regninger. (Walther F. Lake)

“And really elegant writing can only be done on the shoulder-blade bones of the Wooly Rhinoceros.” (R.A. Lafferty, “Calamities Of The Last Pauper”, 1982)

– sært i grunden at man skulle til eksamen i maskinskrivning …
– ja, det var da meget sværere at skifte farvebånd …

There were tiny droplets of rain on her hair like diamonds of friendly electricity. (Richard Brautigan)

“One evening in the Latter Days, Helen brought over some bones and rocks that belonged to her late husband John Palmer. She brought the Moon Whistle too. And she left those things with us. Helen had married again, and to a man who hadn’t known John. And she left all those things with us. And she thought that she’d better get some of those funny old things out of her house. “The Moon Whistle will be no good without you to blow it, Helen,” Hector O’Day said.” (R. A. Lafferty, “You Can’t Go Back”, 1981)

Man skal ikke stole på en mand, der altid er nybarberet. (Walther F. Lake)