Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

Kurt Vonnegut

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut

Science is magic that works.

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

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Kurt Vonnegut

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Kurt Vonnegut