1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.