Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut

We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.

I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.

Love is where you find it.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

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.