Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

You know—we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God—" I said to myself, "it's the Children's Crusade."

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.