Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
Kurt VonnegutLove is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
Kurt VonnegutIt is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
Kurt VonnegutTalent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
Kurt VonnegutHer face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.
Kurt Vonnegut