1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard.

What is sacred to Bokononists?" I asked after a while. "Not even God, as near as I can tell." "Nothing?" "Just one thing." I made some guesses. "The ocean? The sun?" "Man," said Frank. "That's all. Just man.

(speaking of insecurity)"It's broken greater spirits than ours, and robbed the world of God knows how much beauty. I've seen it happen more times than I like to think about."--"$10,000 A Year, Easy

Muszáj törődnöm vele. Valóságos fizikai fájdalmat okoz nekem, ha látom, hogy valamit rosszul csinálnak, amikor pedig olyan könnyen lehet jól is csinálni.

She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.

I like to sleep. I published a new requiem for old music in another book, in which I said it was no bad thing to want sleep for everyone as an afterlife.I see no need up in the sky for more torture chambers and bingo games.

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

Skyscraper National Park

Tis better to have love and lustThan to let our apparatus rust.