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 up to do afterward.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.