There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes From Kurt Vonnegut I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. Kurt Vonnegut hate book ideas The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm. Kurt Vonnegut white class people Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. Kurt Vonnegut tin feet wings There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time. Kurt Vonnegut beautiful looks way The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority. Kurt Vonnegut important messages order I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes. Kurt Vonnegut printed-word want character The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks. Kurt Vonnegut tanks division fighting Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's. Kurt Vonnegut squares revenge jesus I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good. Kurt Vonnegut depressive writing No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. Kurt Vonnegut information matter add The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction. Kurt Vonnegut hate college war We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding. Kurt Vonnegut flags scare als I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale". Kurt Vonnegut yale hair reality There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes. Kurt Vonnegut pairs curiosity eye There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth. Kurt Vonnegut cuckoos earth ideas I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian] Kurt Vonnegut sense-of-humor wife unhappy Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in. Kurt Vonnegut trying people world Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did. Kurt Vonnegut real hero believe Hardly anyone in the world is an American Kurt Vonnegut world The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms. Kurt Vonnegut occasions charm insane
