This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.

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This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend - a lousy poem.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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