Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.was an American author. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 November 1922
CountryUnited States of America
harm slapstick ifs
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
book character writing
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.
feel-better names scientist
I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
creative evolution giraffe
Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
people awful rooms
. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
children war holiday
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.
growing-up children order
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
school nuts class
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
long able living-alone
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.
earth fart
We're here on Earth to fart around
pain writing years
It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.
slaughterhouse-five matter why-me
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
eye curiosity pairs
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
lying reality heartbreaking
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it