Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

To me, pause is sometimes the most important, most effective moment in a film or play or anything.

You can't control everything.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

Time needs another minute.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I cannot command winds and weather.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

There's only so much you can control in life.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men.

The two grand tyrants of the Earth, Time and Chance.

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.