Kurt Vonnegut

Never index your own book.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.

Kurt Vonnegut

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn’t add new and useful information, it should be removed.

Kurt Vonnegut

Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday’s snow job becomes today’s sermon.

Kurt Vonnegut

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren’t a way to make a living.

Kurt Vonnegut

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Kurt Vonnegut

People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

Kurt Vonnegut

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Kurt Vonnegut

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers.

Kurt Vonnegut