"People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Kurt Vonnegut quotes (page 37 of 49)
978 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
Read quote
3 likes
"I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously."
Read quote
3 likes
"The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before."
Read quote
3 likes
"A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible."
Read quote
3 likes
"That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers."
Read quote
3 likes
"Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness."
Read quote
3 likes
"The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess."
Read quote
3 likes
"Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one."
Read quote
3 likes
"I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce."
Read quote
3 likes
"Traveling is like dancing lessons from God."
Read quote
3 likes
"Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you."
Read quote
3 likes
"profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."
Read quote
3 likes
"I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'"
Read quote
3 likes
"I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say."
Read quote
3 likes
"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"."
Read quote
3 likes
"And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'."
Read quote
3 likes
"I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years."
Read quote
3 likes
"The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide."
Read quote
3 likes
"You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind."
Read quote
3 likes