Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Psychology
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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.
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All through the day I'm so confident. That's why I'm such a good salesman, you know? I have confidence, and I look like I have confidence, and that gives other people confidence.
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I have this theory about why men kill each other and break things. ... Never mind. It's a dumb theory. I was going to say it was all sexual ... but everything is sexual ... but alcohol.
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Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.