"Do Writers Have A Right To Strike?"

From Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle"

"When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed." - Jonah

If writers and literature didn't exist:

"...how proud would you be when people started dying like flies?" - Jonah

"They'd die more like mad dogs, I think - snarling and snapping at each other and biting their own tails." - Philip Castle

"Sir, how does a man die when he's deprived of the consolations of literature?" - Jonah

"In one of two ways: putrescence of the heart or atrophy of the nervous system." - Philip Castle