Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I don’t know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Whatever we've said, friends, we're saying still-- such as it was, such as it is, such as it will be”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“That is kind of like what I do," she said. She was demure about what she did. What she did was make…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Foreigners love us for our jazz. And they don’t hate us for our purported liberty and justice for all. They hate us…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The smoke from her cigarette passed beneath the nostrils of the brown and white girls, and their space-annihilating concupiscence seemed centered on…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Life is divided up into phases,” he said. “Each one is very different from the others, and you have to be able…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I have never identified with the "K" in Kafka's works, by the way. Having grown up in a democracy, I have dared…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The therapist, after a deeply upsetting investigation of normality at this time and place, was bound to conclude that a normal person,…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Too many of us treat guns with genial familiarity. Guns should give us the heebie-jeebies. They are killing machines. That is all…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“myself have seen the bodies of schoolgirls who were boiled alive in a water tower by my own countrymen, who were proud…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I am committing suicide by cigarette,” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“You know what the trouble is with New York?” she asked me. “No,” I said. “Nobody here,” she said, “believes that there…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I knew a single word that proved our democratic government was capable of committing obscene, gleefully rabid and racist, yahooistic murders of…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Trout's favorite formula was to describe a perfectly hideous society, not unlike his own, and then, toward the end, to suggest ways…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Real people don’t make their livings that way any more. Those three romantics out there make as much sense as Marie Antoinette…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Listen - on the tenth night the peg was pulled out of the hasp on Billy's boxcar door, and the door was…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“A huge fireplace and Dutch oven of fieldstone filled one wall. Over them hung a long muzzle-loading rifle, powder horn, and bullet…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between. He…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“What an optimistic animal man is!" said Rumfoord rosily. "Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Since all the property is undamaged, has the world lost anything it loved?”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The television cameras dollied and panned about him like curious, friendly dinosaurs, sniffing and peering.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“He flung away his rubber-ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“He told me off camera that he was despised by his neighbors for remembering when it was time to forget.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“job left vacant two weeks ago by death—the managership of the Pittsburgh Works. “How gay can a party get?”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Midget, midget, midget, how he struts and winks, For he knows a man's as big as what he hopes and thinks!”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“All’s bad that ends badly, and it’s only the sick-minded who can feed on the past.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I then believed that a rich man should have some understanding of the place from which his riches came. That was very…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“It was going to be about the love my wife and I had for each other. It was going to show how…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr