Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It si...

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brou...

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really g...

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

Science is magic that works.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighten...

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Pra...

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science f...

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

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I...

When I used to come home from school Mother used to ask me what happened that day, and I’d tell her,...

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so luck...

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilitie...

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wro...

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof,...

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a...

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin...

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of ...

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.