Mark Vonnegut

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

— Mark Vonnegut

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about…

— Mark Vonnegut

“He couldn't help thinking that all that money we were spending blowing up things and killing people so far away, making people…

— Mark Vonnegut

“Beyond a certain point, gathering further evidence of the hurtfulness and shortcomings of one’s family, employer, et cetera is like eating the…

— Mark Vonnegut

“I often took him as one of God's little jokes on me. When I was in desperate trouble, what saved me from…

— Mark Vonnegut

I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

— Mark Vonnegut

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

— Mark Vonnegut

“If nothing I say sparks any thoughts or identification, it’s possible you’re taking too much medication. If it’s the greatest talk you’ve…

— Mark Vonnegut

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

— Mark Vonnegut

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that…

— Mark Vonnegut

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

— Mark Vonnegut

“I don’t think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good…

— Mark Vonnegut

“At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by…

— Mark Vonnegut

“My parents were told by the principal of West Barnstable Elementary School and my teacher that I was a bright boy whose…

— Mark Vonnegut

“If you want to pick out the people who go crazy from time to time in my family, find the ones in…

— Mark Vonnegut

“Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it’s easy to fool yourself into believing you understand…

— Mark Vonnegut

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they…

— Mark Vonnegut

“I understand perfectly why some of my autistic patients scream and flap their arms--it's to frighten off extroverts”

— Mark Vonnegut

When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end.…

— Mark Vonnegut

“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on…

— Mark Vonnegut

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

— Mark Vonnegut

“Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.”

— Mark Vonnegut

“Having rationally decided to become less rational, we hoped to find new, meaningful, exciting, useful truths. Folk”

— Mark Vonnegut

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

— Mark Vonnegut

“My father was a proudly antisocial man who spent most of his time at a typewriter, reflecting negatively on his neighbors and…

— Mark Vonnegut