What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool! Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes From Kurt Vonnegut The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected. Kurt Vonnegut differencespoliticspolitical If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable. Kurt Vonnegut reasonablewould-beforgotten They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber. Kurt Vonnegut amberbugsmoments Be fruitful, and multiply. Kurt Vonnegut You develop a style from writing a lot. Kurt Vonnegut stylewriting It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life. Kurt Vonnegut glassesniceends If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them. Kurt Vonnegut hocus-pocusscaryfacts The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. Kurt Vonnegut threespacephilosophy The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were. Kurt Vonnegut pirateseabelieve Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. Kurt Vonnegut drunkgovernmentpeople Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. Kurt Vonnegut cradleparentliterature Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what. Kurt Vonnegut player-pianoguymatter If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C. Kurt Vonnegut welcomecouplethinking The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was. Kurt Vonnegut fertilesurfaceearth Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. Kurt Vonnegut mathwritingmean The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why. Kurt Vonnegut luckpeopleschool The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight. Kurt Vonnegut hopes-and-fearstonightyears What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. Kurt Vonnegut wellssaidreligion How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year. Kurt Vonnegut countryyearsjesus The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman. Kurt Vonnegut gentlemannew-yorkwar
