Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. — 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
If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean… — 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'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president. — 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
All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — 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
