Kurt Vonnegut Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.”

“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”

“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”

“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.”

“Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.”

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”

“One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.”

“It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.”

“All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.”