Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Life is nothing but high school.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I wonder about turtles.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“It's embarrassing to be human.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Money is dehydrated utopia.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“There is no why.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Lucky me , Lucky mud”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“be true to yourself, and you can’t be false to anybody else, and”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“People are too good for this world.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The secret ingredient in my books is, there has never been a villain.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“No trouble. There really isn’t a heck of a lot to the job.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“What does seem important? Bargaining in good faith with destiny.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Truly great poems never do, somehow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“All people are insane,” he said. “They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“America,” wrote Kilgore Trout in MTYOAP: “is the interplay of three hundred million Rube Goldberg contraptions invented only yesterday.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I could carve a better man out of a banana.’” One of the things Rumfoord had told Lily to get”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“If you want to find a Granfalloon, remove the skin from a toy balloon.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Fred moved quickly, barely escaped being caught in the embarrassing act of destroying himself.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“What were you doing in Hitler’s bunker—looking for your motorcycle and your best friend?”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I’ll tell you what the human soul is, Mary,” he whispered, his eyes closed. “Animals don’t have one. It’s the part of…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“There had been no black people on the household staff of the McCone mansion in Cleveland, no black people in my schools.…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“This is not the case. I find scant evidence in my nonfiction that I have matured at all. I cannot find a…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“We humanists try to behave as decently, as fairly, and as honorably as we can without any expectation of rewards or punishments…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“There's damn little caring for mothers, babies, old people, or anybody physically or economically weak these days as we become ever more…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“He was reading a cheap-looking booklet. Since he was literate, I thought he might be one of the people I was being…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“It might make me seem more human at this point, which is to say more sympathetic, if I were to declare that…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Sooner or later someone’s going to catch the imagination of these people with some new magic. At the bottom of it will…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Be warned: If you allow yourself to see dignity in someone, you have doomed yourself to wanting to understand and help whoever…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“There’s something about war that brings out greatness. I”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr