Quote: All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: Still 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 Vonnegut]
Quote: The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Quote: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. [Kurt Vonnegut]