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
believe imagination way
I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.
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
might suspects universe
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
years stories ordinary
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.
writing drug salesman
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.
fall white laughing
If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.