Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“I speak of humorless people as having a moral flaw, and that's not fair. It's just like regarding it as a moral flaw that someone can't sing. An awful lot of humorless people come into this world, and they make very good Nazis.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut