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
apology drunk environmental
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
truth children pride
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
memorable writing angel
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.
humor writing men
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
sweet atheist crazy
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
giving earth-day environmental
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
sleep suits hunger
In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
art practice soul
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
men thinking fire
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
running time important
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
wisdom philosophy slaughterhouse-five
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
cancer lakes community
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.
time hipster amber
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
meaningful communication order
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.