Top 86 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

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

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.