Vonnegut on Biological Life

He dabbed at his tuxedo with a damp rag, and the fungi came away easily. “Hate to do this, Bill,” he said of the fungi he was murdering. “Fungi have as much right to life as I do. They know what they want, Bill. Damned if I do anymore”.

From Kurt Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions” (1973).