Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness... - Kurt Vonnegut
"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
"I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college."
"Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human."
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."