Cabot

“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Timequake

“Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House