And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
KURT VONNEGUTThe last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Here 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.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Americans, 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.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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The 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.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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