Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, " the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We are what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
... life, by definition, is never still.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.