Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency'.

If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

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

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end.

It flung them like stones.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.