Kurt Vonnegut Quotes And Sayings

As A Humanist, I Love Science. I Hate Superstition, Which Could Never Have Given Us A-bombs.

Oh, Sure, We Have Another World War Coming, And Another Great Depression, But Where Are The Leaders This Time?

Back In My Days As A Chemistry Student, I Used To Be Quite A Technocrat. I Was Firmly Convinced That Scientists Would Have Cornered God And Photographed Him In Color By 1951.

One Of The Things That I Tell Beginning Writers Is This: If You Describe A Landscape, Or A Cityscape, Or A Seascape, Always Be Sure To Put A Human Figure Somewhere In The Scene. Why? Because Readers Are Human Beings, Mostly Interested In Human Beings. People Are Humanists. Most Of Them Are Humanists, That Is.

I Think A Lot Of People, Including Me, Clammed Up When A Civilian Asked About Battle, About War. It Was Fashionable. One Of The Most Impressive Ways To Tell Your War Story Is To Refuse To Tell It, You Know. Civilians Would Then Have To Imagine All Kinds Of Deeds Of Derring-do.

I Really Wonder What Gives Us The Right To Wreck This Poor Planet Of Ours.

It Is A Very Mixed Blessing To Be Brought Back From The Dead.

I Don't Plot My Books Rigidly, Follow A Preconceived Structure. A Novel Mustn't Be A Closed System - It's A Quest.

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.

I Am From A Family Of Artists. Here I Am, Making A Living In The Arts. It Has Not Been A Rebellion. It's As Though I Had Taken Over The Family Esso Station.

People Need Good Lies. There Are Too Many Bad Ones.

This Is Sunday, And The Question Arises, What'll I Start Tomorrow?

Never Index Your Own Book.

Puny Man Can Do Nothing At All To Help Or Please God Almighty, And Luck Is Not The Hand Of God.

I Now Make My Living By Being Impolite. I Am Clumsy At It.

The Year Was 2081, And Everyone Was Finally Equal.

I Had No Talent For Science. What Was Infinitely Worse: All My Fraternity Brothers Were Engineers.

The Feeling About A Soldier Is, When All Is Said And Done, He Wasn't Really Going To Do Very Much With His Life Anyway. The Example Usually Is: He Wasn't Going To Compose Beethoven's Fifth.

If People Think Nature Is Their Friend, Then They Sure Don't Need An Enemy.

Younger Scientists Are Extremely Sensitive To The Moral Implications Of All They Do.

I Was A Chemistry Major, But I'm Always Winding Up As A Teacher In English Departments, So I've Brought Scientific Thinking To Literature. There's Been Very Little Gratitude For This.

I Hope To Build A Reputation As A Science-fiction Writer. That's The Pitch. We'll See.

New Knowledge Is The Most Valuable Commodity On Earth. The More Truth We Have To Work With, The Richer We Become.

I Left The Middle West For Schenectady Because The General Electric Company Offered Me A More Congenial, Better Paying Job Than Did Anyone Else.

Everyone Now Knows How To Find The Meaning Of Life Within Himself. But Mankind Wasn't Always So Lucky. Less Than A Century Ago, Men And Women Did Not Have Easy Access To The Puzzle Boxes Within Them.

Science Is Magic That Works.

There Is Never A Shortage Anywhere Of Lawyers Eager To Attack The First Amendment, As Though It Were Nothing More Than A Clause In A Lease From A Crooked Slumlord.

Science Sent The Hubble Telescope Out Into Space, So It Could Capture Light And The Absence Thereof, From The Very Beginning Of Time. And The Telescope Really Did That. So Now We Know That There Was Once Absolutely Nothing, Such A Perfect Nothing That There Wasn't Even Nothing Or Once.

I Let The Dog Out, Or I Let Him In, And We Talk Some. I Let Him Know I Like Him, And He Lets Me Know He Likes Me.

It May Be That The Most Striking Thing About Members Of My Literary Generation In Retrospect Will Be That We Were Allowed To Say Absolutely Anything Without Fear Of Punishment.

A Chaplain's Assistant Is Customarily A Figure Of Fun In The American Army.

During Most Of My Freelancing, I Made What I Would Have Made In Charge Of The Cafeteria At A Pretty Good Junior-high School.

My Cash Cows, The Slick Magazines, Were Put Out Of Business By Tv.

If You Appear In The 'Atlantic' Or 'Harper's' Or The 'New Yorker,' By God, You Must Be A Writer, Because Everybody Says So.

I Have No Degree In Biochemistry, Neither Do I Have One In Mechanical Engineering, As The Army Saw Fit To Terminate Both Courses Before They Were Finished.

Any Reviewer Who Expresses Rage And Loathing For A Novel Is Preposterous. He Or She Is Like A Person Who Has Put On Full Armor And Attacked A Hot Fudge Sundae.