More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

"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."
"Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick,""Huckleberry Finn,""A Farewell to Arms,""The Scarlet Letter,""The Red Badge of Courage,""The Iliad and The Odyssey,""Crime and Punishment,"the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"— are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?"
"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."