Kurt Vonnegut Ham Quotations

a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life

It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

The arts are not a way to make a living,

You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

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

The big show is inside my head,

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.