Kurt Vonnegut
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different. —Kurt Vonnegut
I heard the news early this morning that Kurt Vonnegut died. Yet another one of my teenage literary companions is gone: William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Anton Wilson, and now Kurt Vonnegut. Who’s next?
When I was fifteen I went through a Vonnegut phase. I wasn’t a big reader then, but I have been ever since. His books helped me get through that dark, lonely period known as high school.