Kurt Vonnegut Of Quotations

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

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

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.

The arts are not a way to make a living,

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

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

The big show is inside my head,