Celebrities Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Birthday: 11 November 1922, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

What kind of nutcase wants to become a psychiatrist?

When [Ernest Hemingway] killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like ...Show more »

When [Ernest Hemingway] killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon. Show less «

A nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

When you get to be our age [elderly], you all of a sudden realize that you are being ruled by the pe...Show more »

When you get to be our age [elderly], you all of a sudden realize that you are being ruled by the people you went to high school with. You all of a sudden catch on that life is nothing but high school. Show less «

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...Show more »

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Show less «

There is no immunity to Cuckoo ideas on Earth.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

I would rather have written Cheers (1982) than anything I've written.

There's this form of "Meditation" I've been practicing for years that's relaxing and enlightening; i...Show more »

There's this form of "Meditation" I've been practicing for years that's relaxing and enlightening; it's called "reading short stories". Show less «

A lot of people think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct. They...Show more »

A lot of people think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct. They think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible. Show less «

I had nothing to do with the script of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), incidentally. That was the work o...Show more »

I had nothing to do with the script of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), incidentally. That was the work of Stephen Geller -- and a good job it was. I didn't meet him until after the picture opened. He is a novelist, too, and I asked him which he liked best, writing novels or screenplays. He preferred novels by far, since they were wholly under his control. Show less «

Always mind what you pretend to be...since you *are* what you pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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