#Quote
More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Take life seriously but none of the people in it.
A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
