Kurt Vonnegut

It’s perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It’s perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

Kurt Vonnegut

It’s the writer’s job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

Kurt Vonnegut

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.

Kurt Vonnegut

Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.

Kurt Vonnegut

Life is no way to treat an animal.

Kurt Vonnegut

Make love when you can. It’s good for you.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

Kurt Vonnegut

My advice to writers just starting out? Don’t use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

Kurt Vonnegut

My ancestors were Freethinkers – and that’s what I am, except we’re called secular humanists now.

Kurt Vonnegut