Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Birthday: 11 November 1922, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Height: 188 cm

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Breakfast of Champions (1999) and Mother Night (1996). He was married to Jill Krementz and Jane Marie Cox. He died on April 11, 2007 in New York City, New York, USA.

A nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

I would rather have written Cheers (1982) than anything I've written.

There's this form of "Meditation" I've been practicing for years that's relaxing and enlightening; i...Show more »

There's this form of "Meditation" I've been practicing for years that's relaxing and enlightening; it's called "reading short stories". Show less «

There is no immunity to Cuckoo ideas on Earth.

I had nothing to do with the script of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), incidentally. That was the work o...Show more »

I had nothing to do with the script of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), incidentally. That was the work of Stephen Geller -- and a good job it was. I didn't meet him until after the picture opened. He is a novelist, too, and I asked him which he liked best, writing novels or screenplays. He preferred novels by far, since they were wholly under his control. Show less «

What kind of nutcase wants to become a psychiatrist?

Always mind what you pretend to be...since you *are* what you pretend to be.

A lot of people think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct. They...Show more »

A lot of people think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct. They think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible. Show less «

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

When you get to be our age [elderly], you all of a sudden realize that you are being ruled by the pe...Show more »

When you get to be our age [elderly], you all of a sudden realize that you are being ruled by the people you went to high school with. You all of a sudden catch on that life is nothing but high school. Show less «

When [Ernest Hemingway] killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like ...Show more »

When [Ernest Hemingway] killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon. Show less «

If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...Show more »

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Show less «