When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
-
-
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
KURT VONNEGUT -
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
KURT VONNEGUT -
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUT -
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
KURT VONNEGUT -
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.
KURT VONNEGUT -
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT -
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUT -
My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
KURT VONNEGUT -
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
KURT VONNEGUT -
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
KURT VONNEGUT