Top 86 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Science is magic that works.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

Never index your own book.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.