Kurt Vonnegut

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Kurt Vonnegut

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Kurt Vonnegut

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

Kurt Vonnegut

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

Kurt Vonnegut

The only way to get anything out of a writer’s brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

Kurt Vonnegut

The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.

Kurt Vonnegut

The system promotes to the top those who don’t care about the planet.

Kurt Vonnegut

The two prime movers in the universe are time and luck.

Kurt Vonnegut

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Kurt Vonnegut

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

Kurt Vonnegut