Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you cant see from the center.”

“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”

“We are what we imagine ourselves to be.”

“Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesnt mean we deserve to conquer the universe.”

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

“If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too. ”

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”

“Theres only one me, and Im stuck with him.”

“Make love when you can. Its good for you.”

“Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God”

“Still and all, why bother? Heres 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.”

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

“A Lovers a liar, to himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, like oysters their eyes”

“History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”

“We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.”

“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?”

“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, youre a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”

“I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”