KURT VONNEGUT, JR. QUOTES
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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.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., The Sirens of Titan
Our leaders are sick of all the solid information that has been dumped on humanity by honest research and excellent scholarship and investigative reporting. They want to put us back on the snake-oil standard.
KURT VONNEGUT, Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006
There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Slaughterhouse-Five
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Cat's Cradle
What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006
Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006
Real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to the human soul.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Mother Night
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006
Maturity ... is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Cat's Cradle
Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie — but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Playboy interview, 1973
Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Conversations With Kurt Vonnegut
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006
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