Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

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.

- Why me?
- That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
- Yes.
- Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

Science is magic that works.

All this happened, more or less.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

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

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.