1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.