Kurt Vonnegut

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Kurt Vonnegut

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

Kurt Vonnegut

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can’t get out. And so I’m impatient with those who think that it’s easy for people to get out of trouble.

Kurt Vonnegut

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

Kurt Vonnegut

I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I’ve ever had, the only love I ever will have.

Kurt Vonnegut

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I’d come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

Kurt Vonnegut

I never knew a writer’s wife who wasn’t beautiful.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Kurt Vonnegut