3.05.2010

IMAGINE THAT

INTERVIEWER: The Franklin Library is bringing out a deluxe edition of Slaughterhouse-Five, I believe.
VONNEGUT: Yes. I was required to write a new introduction for it.
INTERVIEWER: Did you have any new thoughts?
VONNEGUT: I said that only one person on the entire planet benefited from the raid, which must have cost tens of millions of dollars. The raid didn't shorten the war by half a second, didn't weaken a German defense or attack anywhere, didn't free a single person from a death camp. Only one person benefited—not two or five or ten. Just one.
INTERVIEWER: And who was that?
VONNEGUT: Me. I got three dollars for each person killed. Imagine that.
--From a collection of interviews with Kurt Vonnegut

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