1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.

I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.