Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many ... -Kurt Vonnegut

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Kurt Vonnegut Quotes to Explore

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infan...

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?...

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not ...

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see....

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, ...

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescop...

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal....

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's bee...

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functio...

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by...

Alone Quotes to Explore

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone....

I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that w...

Victims always feel alone and helpless....

I don't even know how much money I've spent on all of this stuff... Just in plates and bars alone, it's literally a ridiculous amount of money I've sp...

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient....

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone....

I really love football and for this reason alone, I trained hard every day, building up good stamina and energy....

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but ...

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom i...

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone,...