“My life is nothing but room for you...It could never be filled by anyone but you.” — 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
All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Enjoy the little things in life... for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Why should I bother with made-up games when there are so many real ones going on?” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There was nothing quite like sworn testimony to make life look trivial and mean ever after. Also:” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.” — 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
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“But, to Shepherd, life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would… — 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
“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
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
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are no dirty words in this book, except for 'hell' and 'God', in case someone is fearing that an innocent child… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a… — 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
“My life is nothing but room for you,’ I said. ‘It could never be filled by anyone but you.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There's more to life than what you read in books. You'll find that out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Fungi have as much right to life as I do. they know what they want, Bill. Damned if I do anymore.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You mustn't speak certain kinds of truth, not if you want to go on living.” — 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
