1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

He had a W.C. Fields twang and a nose like a prize strawberry.

Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried.

Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!

I might have been vaguely inclined to dismiss the stone angel as meaningless, and to go from there to the meaninglessness of all. But after I saw what Krebbs had done, in particular what he had done to my sweet cat, nihilism was not for me. Somebody or something did not wish me to be a nihilist.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.

Flashlight beams danced crazily

Please look at the imperfect human being God gave to love you once, and try to like me a little for what I really was, or, God willing, am. Then please, darling, become an imperfect human being among imperfect human beings again.""Jenny

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information." I would add to that, "All the same, Sir, I'm not persuaded that we did the best we could with the information we had. Toward the end there, anyway, we had tons of information.