If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
