I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'
Kurt VonnegutThere were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
Kurt VonnegutCharacters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
Kurt VonnegutThe little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
Kurt Vonnegut