When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

When we passed a Catholic Church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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 Jr.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Yes, and our sister's sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find their mother or their father in their memories anywhere - not anywhere. The goat farmer, whose name is James Car malt Adams, Jr., said this about it to me, tapping his forehead with his fingertips: "It isn't the museum, it should be." The museums in children's minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror - to protect the children from eternal grief.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You can't help it, but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.