1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

See the cat? See the cradle?

a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life

World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away.