Welcome to the Monkey House Quotes

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing.
In the water I am beautiful. ”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“What in hell is a girl with hips like yours doing selling death?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“And I realize now that the two main themes of my novels were stated by my siblings: 'Here I am, cleaning shit off of practically everything' and 'No pain.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“There are too many of us, and we are all too far apart,”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Nobody ever went broke overestimating the vulgarity of the American people,”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“I don't want to be a machine, and I don't want to think about war," EPICAC had written after Pat's and my
lighthearted departure. "I want to be made out of protoplasm and last forever so Pat will love me. But fate
has made me a machine. That is the only problem I cannot solve. That is the only problem I want to solve. I
can't go on this way." I swallowed hard. "Good luck, my friend. Treat our Pat well. I am going to shortcircuit myself out of your lives forever. You will find on the remainder of this tape a modest wedding
present from your friend, EPICAC.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Welcome to the Monkey House

“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Welcome to the Monkey House

“I am committing suicide by cigarette,” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Welcome to the Monkey House

“John,” I said, “when you get older, you’re going to understand a lot of things you don’t understand now.” “You must mean nuclear physics,” he said. “I can hardly wait.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“When machines start delivering themselves,” I said, “I guess that’s when the people better start really worrying.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Fred Bockman is thirty and looks eighteen. Life has left no marks on him, because he hasn’t paid much attention to it.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“I am committing suicide by cigarette,” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks. My brand is Pall Mall. The authentic suicides ask for Pall Malls. The dilettantes ask for Pell Mells.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“I may not know what love is,” he said, “but, by God, at least I’ve never gotten drunk by myself.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“He often said that he wished that he could be a stone mason like me. He said a stone mason would have time and peace in which to think things out. I did not tell him that a stone mason thinks of little but stones and mortar.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“If you go back through history, you'll find that the people who have been most eager to rule, to make the laws, to enforce the laws and to tell everybody exactly how God Almighty wants things here on Earth--those people have forgiven themselves and their friends for anything and everything. But they have been absolutely disgusted and terrified by the natural sexuality of common men and women.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Welcome to the Monkey House

“One foot in front of the other—through leaves, over bridges," said Newt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Soak yourself in Jergen’s Lotion.
Here comes the one-man population
explosion.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“I never knew a writer’s wife who wasn’t beautiful.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Gee—I could tell that one was a doozy,” said Hazel. “You can say that again,” said George. “Gee—” said Hazel, “I could tell that one was a doozy.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“nervously. “I have never dared to concentrate as hard as I can for fear of the damage I might do. I’m to the point where a mere whim is a blockbuster.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitions.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House