Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.
Kurt VonnegutThe artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.
Kurt VonnegutThere is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.
Kurt Vonnegut