Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

And 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. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.