Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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There was not a country in the world that had not fought a battle in the war of all Earth against the invaders from Mars.All was forgiven.All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
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Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,Why go right ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.
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Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: 'Make me young, make me young, make me young!'
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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What do I myself think of this particular book? I feel lousy about it, but I always feel lousy about my books.
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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My father said 'When in doubt, castle.'
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants.
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It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.
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Why so many of us a million years ago purposely knocked out major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery. It may be we were trying to give evolution a shove in the right direction - in the direction of smaller brains.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
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Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, I remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this:WE COULD HAVE SAVED ITBUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAPOnly he didn't say 'doggone.''
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Old Norwegian Proverb: Swedes have short dicks but long memories.
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People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.
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Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
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Peculiar Travel Suggestions are Dancing Lessons From God
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Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.
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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.