Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The very toughest reporters were women who had taken over the jobs of men who'd gone to war.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For having the courage to tell the truth during the war when everybody else was telling lies” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy stood there politely, giving the marksman another chance. It was his addled understanding of the rules of warfare that the marksman… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There in the hospital, Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: He was trying… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He was a district attorney in Pennsylvania. I was a writer on Cape Cod. We had been privates in the war, infantry… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was a war of reason against barbarism, supposedly, with the issues at stake on such a high plane that most of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When I got home from the Second World War, mu Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, "You're a… — 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'm not a soldier, not a political man. I'm an artist. If war comes, I won't do anything to help it along.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“THE GERMANS AND THE DOG were engaged in a military operation which had an amusingly self-explanatory name, a human enterprise which is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle, who was alive and who was dead.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.'… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Dr. Kevorkian has just unstrapped me from the gurney after yet another controlled near-death experience. I was lucky enough on this trip… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You were just babies in the war—like the ones upstairs!” I nodded that this was true. We had been foolish virgins in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was,"… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Most white people in Midland City were insecure when they spoke, so they kept their sentences short and their words simple, in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Prisoners of war from many lands came together that morning at such and such a place in Dresden. It had been decreed… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trnk as a coffin for the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I remembered when I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trunk as a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world… — 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
