Quotes by kurt vonnegut

“The highest possible form of treason," said Minton," is to say that Americans aren't loved wherever they go, whatever they do. Claire tried to make the point that American foreign policy should rec...”

“In case nobody has told you," she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else--where everybody learns to make his or her own way.”

“We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine.”

“Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.”

“Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth.You dont seem to agree.I dont know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be...”

“You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”

“My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.”

“That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old-time big brains: They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never ...”

“I am not writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to hap...”

“The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally Apocalyptic. It was now the Church of G...”

“Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.”

“Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.”

“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as "common decency". I treated somebody well for a little while, or eve...”

“She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.”

“We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in the world' - she's talking about cannibals. Lot's to eat.”

“Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me prou...”

“Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.”

“It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done”

“American humorist Kin Hubbard said , "It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be". The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to ...”

“The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesnt have to be a...”