Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.

'One sacred memory from childhood is perhaps the best education,' said Fyodor Dostoevsky. I believe that, and I hope that many Earthling children will respond to the first human footprint on the moon as a sacred thing. We need sacred things. The footprint could mean, if we let it, that Earthlings have done an unbelievably difficult and beautiful thing which the Creator, for Its own reasons, wanted Earthlings to do.</br>Footprint.

In the nightmare of a warring world, it takes peculiar skills to get along.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.

"We'd been apart so long — I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that."
"My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you."

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “Science Fiction” … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.

Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

What is literature but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the Universe but a few molecules who have the disease called "thought".

She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.