Amber Quote by Anonymous

“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Billy licked his lips, thought a while, inquired at last: "Why me?" "That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you?…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?" "Yes." Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

— Kurt Vonnegut

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why the event is structured as it is,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“How- how did I get here?" "It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day…

— Sue Hubbell

Wherever there's light, there's bugs.

— Henry Allen Ironside

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways…

— Anonymous

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson