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
crazy opportunity spy
Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.
beautiful wife
I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.
jobs character stage
It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.
fall people stories
All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
moving years curiosity
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.
mistake stealing abraham
It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
thinking usual storytelling
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.
mad being-old
I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
believe airplane army
I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.
students geography knows
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
scary hocus-pocus facts
If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
character mines has-beens
Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
dream littles kind
I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
simple naked understood
Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.