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.
KURT VONNEGUTMaturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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All this happened, more or less.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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.
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