Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
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Roses are redAnd ready for pluckingYou're sixteenAnd ready for high school.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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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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Anita had the mechanics of marriage down pat, even to the subtlest conventions. If her approach was disturbingly rational, systematic, she was thorough enough to turn out a credible counterfeit of warmth.
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My last words? 'Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.'
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'I liked him very much,' said Constant.'The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms,' said Beatrice.
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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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In case you haven’t noticed, we … dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything. Piece of cake.
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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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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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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
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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.
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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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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.