No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine.… — 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 myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much… — 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
