1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.

On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.