“If you find your life tangled up with somebody else’s life for no very logical reasons,” writes Bokonon, “that person may be… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Bodies lay everywhere, in grotesque attitudes of violent death, but manifesting the miracle of life in a snore, a mutter, the flight… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Life is divided up into phases,” he said. “Each one is very different from the others, and you have to be able… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“I am committing suicide by cigarette,” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Real people don’t make their livings that way any more. Those three romantics out there make as much sense as Marie Antoinette… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“The truth was that life was as short and brutish and mean as ever. “But people didn’t have to pay as much… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Then you’ll do it brilliantly, darling. You’ll get to Pittsburgh yet.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of gears whose… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors—mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture, mass murder.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“Him! Him! Captain Eliot Rosewater–Silver Star, Bronze Star, Soldier's Medal, and Purple Heart with Cluster! Sailing champion! Ski champion! Him! Him! My God–the number… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
