1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

If I wrote something that hadn’t really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That’s fraud!

I used my daughter’s crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.

We’re a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that’s all. You can’t change history. History is happening to us now.

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any ‘Good Old Days,’ there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, ‘Don’t look at me. I just got here myself.’

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Sometimes I wonder if he wasn’t born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? ‘don’t try’ he said ’just pretend you understand.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.