1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Be fruitful, and multiply.

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

How embarrassing to be human.