More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
Take life seriously but none of the people in it.
To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
