Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes. Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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The controls were anything but a hunch-player’s delight in a Universe composed of one-trillionth part matter to one decillion parts black velvet futility.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
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All the things you are are going to be sued and sued successfully. And, while the litigants may not be able to get blood from turnips, they can certainly ruin the turnips in the process of trying.
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So it goes.
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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Hi Ho
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My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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When the excrement hit the air conditioner (Recurring phrase throughout many chapters)
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.
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We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
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I asked Rob Roy where he had gone to college.'Yale,' he said.I told him what Helen Dole said about Yale, that it ought to be called 'Plantation Owners' Tech.''I don't get it,' he said.'I had to ask her to explain it myself,' I said. 'She said Yale was where plantation owners learned how to get the natives to kill each other instead of them.'
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So let’s give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That’ll teach bin Laden a lesson he won’t soon forget.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.