Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A man without a home can't be lost.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.