1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

As I say, all all he wanted from the manuscript was the string. That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next. On the day of the bomb it was string. [...] He had no use at all for tricks and games and rules that other people made up.

Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokonists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.But all I could say as a Christian then was, "Life is sure funny sometimes.""And sometimes it isn't," said Marvin Breed.

What is the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?" she might ask me."I don't know," I would say."You can't hear an enzyme," she would say[...]

People who sell bolts and nuts and locomotives and frozen orange juice make billions, while the people who struggle to bring a little beauty into the world, give life a little meaning, they starve.--"$10,000 A Year, Easy

And it's special meaning for me was this: It is proof that sometime back when my father was a young, young man, he must have had a moment or two when he felt that he might have reason to take himself and his life seriously.

Twenty-fours hours of sleeplessness had made her, in my eyes, anyway, and idealized representation of compassionate, long-suffering women of all ages everywhere.

Ludzie mają tę wadę, że wszyscy chcą budować, a nikt nie chce zająć się utrzymaniem porządku i remontem.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.