Kurt Vonnegut Way Quotations

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

The arts are not a way to make a living,

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...

... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.