Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
![“It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. [...] And it strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that a man can always solve his problems. There is an implication…” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/505/kurt-vonnegut-41_comical_it-goes-against-the-american-storytellin_665322.jpg)
