1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.