40 Quotes About Vonnegut

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

They needed lots of peace and quiet," said Roy, "and so do I, and so do you, I guess, and I'm sorry if I disturbed you. I wasn't doing anything a bird wouldn't do."Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man.They don't make memories like that anymore.

What an optimistic animal man is!" said Rumfoord rosily. "Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as though people were as well-developed as turtles!" He shrugged. "Well - who knows - maybe human beings will last that long, just on the basis of pure cussedness. What's your guess?

How-how do you do?" I asked. My heart was pounding. Blood boiled in my ears."It is not possible to make a mistake," she assured me. I did not know this was a customary greeting given by all Bokonists when meeting a shy person. So, I responded with a feverish discussion of whether it was possible to make a mistake or not."My God, you have no idea how many mistakes I've already made. You're looking at the world's champion mistakemaker.

When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.

This episode made me sorry to be alive, made me envy stones. I would rather have been a stone at the service of the Natural Order.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific.