[KVJ on story structure, Hamlet, Cinderella, and Kafka][link]:
>But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
[link]: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kurt-vonnegut-at-the-blackboard.php?page=all “Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard – Lapham’s Quarterly”