1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don’t you wish you could have something named after you?

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren’t going to want to go on living.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can’t get out. And so I’m impatient with those who think that it’s easy for people to get out of trouble.

A man without a home can’t be lost.

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren’t diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren’t and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don’t have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse’s ass – Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.