The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
Kurt VonnegutHe ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.
Kurt VonnegutThe reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
Kurt VonnegutA great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.
Kurt Vonnegut