All 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 VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
-
-
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
KURT VONNEGUT -
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
KURT VONNEGUT -
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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 -
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.
KURT VONNEGUT -
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 -
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
KURT VONNEGUT -
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
KURT VONNEGUT -
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
KURT VONNEGUT -
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
KURT VONNEGUT -
All this happened, more or less.
KURT VONNEGUT -
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.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Science is magic that works.
KURT VONNEGUT -
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
KURT VONNEGUT -
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
KURT VONNEGUT