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“I think it’s important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Letters

“Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Letters

“When things go well for days on end, it is an hilarious accident.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Letters

“I had a psychiatrist tell me that shyness is a form of hostility. They tell everybody that, you know. That was a couple of years ago, so I have had a long time to think about it. I have persuaded myself that it isn’t true. It’s fear and laziness and realism. It’s an embarrassed apology which says in effect: “Hey—I’m sorry, I probably don’t like life as much as you do.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“He will not hate. He will not kill. There’s hope in that. There’s no hope in war.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“These were the last words of advice Vonnegut wrote to be delivered to an audience: “And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don’t already have one.â€� I’m out of here.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“Best thunderclap came from Spengler, to the effect that science is either true or false, art is either shallow or deep. Second best came from some Supreme Court Justice, Jackson, I think, to the effect that one man’s right to swing his fists stops where another man’s nose begins.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“But that’s fetishism, I think, writing books to write books.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“My sister is poverty-stricken, and I mean poverty stricken, at age 38, and she says she is damn well fed-up with the character-building aspects of disappointment. Me too.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“Unsettling business for an artist, where everything that happens in New York has universality, and everything that happens outside is ethnography.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“Best thunderclap came from Spengler, to the effect that science is either true or false, art is either shallow or deep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“No sense in a man with writer’s block going to New York.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“Socrates talks to an old duffer about what old age is like. The old duffer says in effect (I can’t put my hands on the book just now) that he feels as though he’d been freed from a cruel and unreasonable master.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“Don’t kiss me now—here comes somebody.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“no man who achieved greatness in the arts operated by himself; he was top man in a group of like-minded individuals.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“After desperately trying to improve our situation for two months and having been met with bland smiles I told the guards just what I was going to do to them when the Russians came. They beat me up a little. I was fired as group leader.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“As becomes more obvious every day, good citizenship is highly unpopular.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“The events in Vietnam and the protests against the draft, led by college students, increased the growing influence of the youth culture, who made Vonnegut their literary hero in questioning the accepted wisdom of the status quo. Kurt was as surprised as anyone and had never wanted to be a “spokesmanâ€� of the young. He was very leery of the hippie phenomenon and wrote a searing account of one of their heroes, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru to the Beatles and assorted movie stars (“Yes, We Have No Nirvanas,â€� published in Esquire and collected in his book Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons). He satirized the stylish popularity of Eastern meditation, saying we had the same thing in the West—reading short stories, which also lowered your heart rate and freed your mind from other concerns. He said short stories were “Buddhist catnaps.â€� He thought the Maharishi was a phony but he loved the music of the Beatles, spoke up for Abbie Hoffman, and admired Allen Ginsberg. When”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Kurt Vonnegut: Letters