Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.