Top 86 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.