Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.
It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
