Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.


-Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

-One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

-There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

-Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

-Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

-We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Good choices, as always. Thank you.

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
Kurt Vonnegut

"Knowles was insane, I'm almost sure - offensively so, in that he grabbed his own behind and cried, 'Yes, yes!' whenever he felt that he'd made a point." ~Kurt Vonnegut