vonnegutt quotes

From Jailbird (library)

p. 7 "And so on. It insisted on being a very unfriendly story, so I quit writing it. "

p. 178-9 "About the young man and his radio. I decided that he had bought the thing as a prosthetic device, as an artificial enthusiasm for the planet. He paid as little attention to it as I paid to my false front tooth. I have since seen several young men like that in groups - with their radios tuned to different stations, with their radios engaged in a spirited conversation. The young men themselves, perhaps having been told nothing but, 'shut up' all their lives, had nothing to say."