Wells Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Sons of suicides seldom do well.

— Kurt Vonnegut

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

— Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— 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

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project…

— Kurt Vonnegut

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back…

— 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

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story…

— 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

Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and…

— 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

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with…

— Kurt Vonnegut