Who 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 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 VONNEGUTI have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
KURT VONNEGUTWe’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
KURT VONNEGUTShe hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
KURT VONNEGUTTo practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUTWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KURT VONNEGUTOf all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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 VONNEGUTScience is magic that works.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
KURT VONNEGUTAmericans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
KURT VONNEGUTLive by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
KURT VONNEGUTLaughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
KURT VONNEGUTThe worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
KURT VONNEGUT