1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.

All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

That’s what is was to be young – to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while – and then live again.

Thinking doesn’t seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand – passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be – is actually who you are!

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

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see.