Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, ‘Where are you going?’ I say, ‘Well, I’m going…

Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, ‘Where are you going?’ I say, ‘Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.’ And she says, ‘You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.’ And I say, ‘Hush.’ — Kurt Vonnegut in a 1996 interview with Inc. magazine on finding any small reason to get outside and interact with the…