Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. — 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
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any writer who presents an American home today where the television is not the head of the family is living in a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how… — 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
The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I call TVs 'erasers' because they have not only wiped away the entire human experience to date, but whatever it was they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted… — 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