9 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Criticism

Kurt Vonnegut quotes on criticism

17. Well, I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.

18. The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.

29. Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

47. Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

98. I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled 'Science Fiction' ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

142. It is a gruesome Disneyland. Nobody is cute there.

153. I asked Rob Roy where he had gone to college. 'Yale,' he said. I told him what Helen Dole said about Yale, that it ought to be called 'Plantation Owners' Tech.' 'I don't get it,' he said. 'I had to ask her to explain it myself,' I said. 'She said Yale was where plantation owners learned how to get the natives to kill each other instead of them.'

209. The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

226. I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.