Kurt Vonnegut
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
Kurt VonnegutSome jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
Kurt VonnegutIgnore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
Kurt VonnegutIt is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt VonnegutI want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt VonnegutThere is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Kurt VonnegutStill and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt VonnegutTo whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Kurt VonnegutAll time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt VonnegutTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt VonnegutDuring my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt VonnegutAll this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Kurt VonnegutI really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt VonnegutThose who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
Kurt VonnegutIf you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
Kurt VonnegutOne of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt VonnegutHere is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt VonnegutHere's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Kurt VonnegutIf people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt VonnegutHere we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt VonnegutI say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
Kurt VonnegutCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
Kurt VonnegutJust because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
Kurt VonnegutI tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Kurt VonnegutWho is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut
