Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

A man without a home can't be lost.

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

You are pooped and demoralised," read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Science is magic that works.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.