More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
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.
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.
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.
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.
