Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.
She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.
He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.
All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.
