Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.