Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My life is nothing but room for you...It could never be filled by anyone but you.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Life is a garden, not a road. We enter and exit through the same gate. Wandering, where we go matters less than… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not,” said Trout. “It’s dangerous, I know, and it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We accepted their congratulations with good grace and proper modesty, but I felt then as I feel now, that I would have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Unk had no way of judging the quality of the information contained in the letter. He accepted it all hungrily, uncritically. And,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,” I said, “that makes it damn nearly impossible for me to say anything. I’ve… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy stayed in the wagon when it reached the slaughterhouse, sunning himself. The others went looking for souvenirs. Later on in life,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He said he hoped a lot of us would have careers in science,' she said. She didn't see anything funny in that.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My uncle Alex Vonnegut, a Harvard-educated life insurance salesman who lived at 5033 North Pennsylvania Street, taught me something very important. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Life has left no marks on him, because he hasn't paid much attention to it.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Look at him! That's life, according to the medical profession. Isn't life wonderful?” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. — 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
