Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That’s why I served in World War II, and that’s why I wrote books.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut

I’m simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don’t think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don’t have that feeling. I don’t have that sort of control. I’m simply becoming. I’m startled that I became a writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

I’ve been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

Kurt Vonnegut

If people insist on living as if there’s no tomorrow, there really won’t be one.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Kurt Vonnegut

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Kurt Vonnegut

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It’s like a head-on collision every time. It’s supposed to be a surprise but it’s commonplace.

Kurt Vonnegut