1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

But doing that job, surviving it, was like getting a Purple Heart. I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

THE WINNERS ARE AT WAR WITH THE LOSERS, AND THE FIX IS ON. THE PROSPECTS FOR PEACE ARE AWFUL.

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.