You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.
Kurt VonnegutThe most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
Kurt VonnegutAnd I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Kurt VonnegutDo you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
Kurt VonnegutI don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.
Kurt Vonnegut