Cat Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

— Louis Sachar

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience…

— Charles J. Shields

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to…

— Jess Walter

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

— Christopher Moore

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

— Lorde

“To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. -Mr. Vonnegut”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“My uncle Alex Vonnegut, a Harvard-educated life insurance salesman who lived at 5033 North Pennsylvania Street, taught me something very important. He said that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“So it goes." Unlike many of these quotes, the repeated refrain from Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five isn't notable for its unique wording so much as…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Poo-tee-weet?”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British queen-- All…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Billy Pilgrim: "You guys go on without me. I'll be alright." Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Oh," said Castle. "Him." He shrugged. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have…

— Kurt Vonnegut