“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“So it goes.”
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.”
“Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers”