1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.