I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
- Kurt Vonnegut
You learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again
- Kurt Vonnegut
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
- Kurt Vonnegut
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Take Care of the People, and God Almighty Will Take Care of Himself.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Make love when you can. It's good for you.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe God has let everybody who ever lived be reborn - so he or she can see how it ends.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
- Kurt Vonnegut
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
- Kurt Vonnegut
History is merely a list of surprises. ... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
- Kurt Vonnegut
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
- Kurt Vonnegut
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete.
- Kurt Vonnegut
What we will be seeking ... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist
- Kurt Vonnegut
This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Life is no way to treat an animal.
- Kurt Vonnegut
