1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

Love is where you find it.

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anything—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.

It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

Until you die .. it's all life.