Kyle West

“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly poetry, that involved almost no math at all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“It really doesn't bother me," she said. "I've always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Fencing Master

“It was a big mistake for me to take a degree in anthropology anyway, because I can't stand primitive people — they're so stupid.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work