Kurt Vonnegut Good Quotations

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed

I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard,

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

I consider writing an act of good citizenship.

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.