1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn’t have the slightest idea what’s really going on.

If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don’t mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

Doesn’t anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That’s because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

Our government’s got a war on drugs. That’s certainly better then no drugs at all.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people’s actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

I couldn’t survive my own pessimism if I didn’t have some kind of sunny little dream.

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules – and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.