There 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 VonnegutWrite to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Kurt VonnegutThe Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.
Kurt VonnegutHis mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.
Kurt Vonnegut