All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
Kurt VonnegutExtenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
Kurt VonnegutIt's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.
Kurt VonnegutThe prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.
Kurt VonnegutI realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut