Kurt Vonnegut

Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. I am a very happy man. Thank you.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.'''

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

I smiled at one of the guards. He did not smile back. There was nothing funny about national security, nothing at all.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.So be it.

My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.

[Lyman Enders] Knowles was insane, I’m almost sure – offensively so, in that he grabbed his own behind and cried, ‘Yes, yes!’ whenever he felt that he'd made a point.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Nothing in this book is true."Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy." — The Books of Bokonon 1:5*Harmless untruths

"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody," she said, "would be to not be used for anything by anybody." ... "Thank you for using me," she said to Constant, "even though I didn't want to be used by anybody."