Kurt Vonnegut

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for — to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

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

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Science is magic that works.

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

And so it goes...

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

All this happened, more or less.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.