Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

I don't make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: 'everything.' Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

I'm always doing everything backwards.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

We don't really have to make fun of religion - it makes fun of itself.

I never thought I'd refer to myself as a hot mess.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.

I think absurdist humor is funny.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Humor is just truth, only faster!

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around ["I'm With Her"].

My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy.

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.