Kurt Vonnegut

People like to feel entitled, whether they’re actually entitled or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Kurt Vonnegut

The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won’t learn anything if you don’t invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.

Kurt Vonnegut

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one’s soul to grow.

Kurt Vonnegut

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

Kurt Vonnegut

Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

Kurt Vonnegut

If I was ever to have a child, this is what I’d tell it: ‘Child,’ I’d say, ‘don’t never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you’re going, child.

Kurt Vonnegut

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American army.

Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of critics think I’m stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

Kurt Vonnegut