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
writing thinking mountain
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
war grandchildren industry
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
war nice worry
A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
air umpires enemy
The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.
technology electronics live-by
Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.
iron fire water
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
survival survivor
I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.
food unhappy eating
It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.
weather economy
The economy is a thoughtless weather system.
fighting reason mother-night
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,
war gun two
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
usa matter treason
The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
country boys thinking
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.
scare als flags
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.