1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.