Top 86 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

About Kurt Vonnegut

These are some quotes by American author Kurt Vonnegut Author, who lived between November 11, 1922 and April 11, 2007.

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.

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Science is magic that works.

Science is magic that works.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Kurt Vonnegut

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never index your own book.

Never index your own book.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Kurt Vonnegut

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Kurt Vonnegut

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