Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.