Quotes by kurt vonnegut

“Artists," he said, "are people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece...”

“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of l...”

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfor...”

“It couldn't have been gonorrhea, which never stops eating you up of its own accord. Why should it ever stop of its own accord? It's having such a nice time. Why call off the party? Look how healthy...”

“He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.”

“I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]”

“Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.”

“‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

“We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”