1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

To be is to do - SocratesTo do is to be - SartreDo Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.