Way Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Life is no way to treat an animal.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The arts are not a way to make a living,

— Kurt Vonnegut

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Luck is not the hand of God… Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground… It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?…The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One…

— Kurt Vonnegut

All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...

— Kurt Vonnegut

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow...

— Kurt Vonnegut

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

— Kurt Vonnegut