Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Hello babies. Welcome to earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—:"God damn it, you've got to be kind."

You know—we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God—" I said to myself, "it's the Children's Crusade."

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.