‘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.’
“Other people say, ‘Hello’ or ‘Goodbye!’ We always say, ‘Excuse me,’ no matter what we’re doing.” He threw up his hands. “No more apologies! So we’re poor! All right, we’re poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world where people shouldn’t have to apologize for being poor. The question in America should be, ‘Is this guy a good citizen? Is he honest? Does he pull his own weight?’”
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. #vonnegut (Taken with instagram)