1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

The highest possible form of treason," said Minton," is to say that Americans aren't loved wherever they go, whatever they do. Claire tried to make the point that American foreign policy should recognize hate rather than imagine love.

In case nobody has told you," she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else--where everybody learns to make his or her own way.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

The people who lived here hated it so much that they had burned down a lot of it a month before. It was all they had, and they'd wrecked it.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.