7 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Psychology

Kurt Vonnegut quotes on psychology

19. 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.

37. The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

51. Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

66. 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.

73. 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.

83. Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

205. Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.