1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!

If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too....

Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

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?

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.