1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

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.

How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.