Kurt Vonnegut

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.

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

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

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

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.