1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, “It is done.” People did not like it here.

Make love when you can. It’s good for you.

I’m not a drug salesman. I’m a writer.

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why just go ahead and scold Him. He’ll just smile and nod.

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

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That’s like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet.

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

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.