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 telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once. -Kurt Vonnegut Science
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 young people. -Kurt Vonnegut Funny
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. -Kurt Vonnegut Age
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 have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. -Kurt Vonnegut Men
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. -Kurt Vonnegut Change
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 have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. -Kurt Vonnegut Women
I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. -Kurt Vonnegut Science
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. -Kurt Vonnegut Art
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. -Kurt Vonnegut Truth
I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours. -Kurt Vonnegut Morning
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, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut Good
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, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut Hope
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. -Kurt Vonnegut Power
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 telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once. -Kurt Vonnegut Space
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. -Kurt Vonnegut Work
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. -Kurt Vonnegut Morning
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. -Kurt Vonnegut Science
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? -Kurt Vonnegut Freedom
