1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically.

... life, by definition, is never still.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.