Kurt Vonnegut

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that you will be living in eternity.

I think I am a man without a country, except that I have a country, and it's full of people who are as crazy as I am.

People say, 'What is the most important thing for a writer?' I say, 'Don't be boring.'

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

It was a mistake, said the cow. It was a mistake, said the cow. It was a mistake, said the cow.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

I've got a lot of trouble with sanity. It's a constant struggle.

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

We are all victims of the things we don't understand.

People have to talk about something, and it's better to talk about nothing than to talk about something that's important.

To be alive is to be a work of art.

You ask me if I think I'm a genius? I think I'm a human being, and I'm doing the best I can.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to get what he wants.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I've often thought that the best thing to do with a human being is to put him in a box and feed him through a slot.

I still believe that it is a holy thing to be a writer.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reasons ever to hate.

We are all prisoners of our own minds.

I don't know what it is about humanity, but we're always trying to make things worse for ourselves.