1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

We're here on Earth to fart around

...Skyscraper National Park

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.