Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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


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


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


1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.


A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.