1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

There are no dirty words in this book, except for 'hell' and 'God', in case someone is fearing that an innocent child might see 1...Perhaps the only precept taught me by Grandfather Wills that I have honoured all my adult life is that profanity and obsceny entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their eyes and ears to you.

به نظر من وقتی کسی نویسنده می شود، وظیفه ی مقدسش این است که زیبایی، روشن بینی، و آرامش را با حداکثر سرعت خلق کند.

Hello and good-bye." What else is there to say? Our language is much larger than it needs to be.

The economy is a thoughtless weather system and nothing more.

I could no more lie without noticing it than I could un-knowingly pass a kidney stone. 
If there is another life after this one, I would like very much, in the next one, to be the sort of person of whom it could truly be said, “Forgive him— he knows not what he does.

Most of the supposed wealth held by American banks at that point had become so wholly imaginary, so weightless and impalpable, that any amount of it could be transferred instantly to Ecuador, or anyplace else capable of receiving a written message by wire or radio.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops.

Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth.”“You don’t seem to agree.”“I don’t know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.