Kurt Vonnegut on life during an Apocalypse

Good advice for anyone

One of those writers almost universally respected and often revered, and most famous for the antiwar novel Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut was a very funny man whose humor came from a strong and humanistic moral sense. These are the last words he wrote to give to an audience and appear at the end of Kurt Vonnegut: Letters.

And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don’t already have one.

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