Quotes by kurt vonnegut

“To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. Thats all right. I like to have my heart broken.”

“The human race is a scummy thing, and so is Earth, and so are you.”

“When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed”

“A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.”

“I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale."George W. Bush has gathered aro...”

“Sergeant Boyle was an Earthling. He was the only Earthling on the expedition. In fact, he was the only creature from the Milky Way. The other members were from all over the place. The expedition wa...”

“Nothing ever really ends. Thats the horrible part of being in the short-story businessyou have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. Millicent at last understands. Nobody ever und...”

“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and large, which accounts for their being in a profession...”

“I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.”

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

“Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried.”

“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 ...”

“Please look at the imperfect human being God gave to love you once, and try to like me a little for what I really was, or, God willing, am. Then please, darling, become an imperfect human being amo...”

“Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.”

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”

“The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or...”

“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy did...”

“She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn't know.”

“Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong some...”

“And God created every living creaturethat now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak.God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke.Man blinked. What is the purpose ...”