1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.

When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here.

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!