Kurt Vonnegut

“Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information."…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Hawkins was eloquent and poetic--but most of all he was exquisitely sensitive to a woman's moods. He sensed it when Annie was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“My mother isn’t mentioned, but what she taught me to say in place of ain’t I? or aren’t I? or ain’t I?…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The painter's face curdled with scorn "You think I'm proud of this daub?" he said. "You think this is my idea of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Mr. Constant,” he said, “right now you’re as easy for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to watch as a man on a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Stephen Hawking… found it tantalizing that we could not remember the future. But remembering the future is child's play for me now.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Eliza—” I said, “so many of the books I’ve read to you said love was the most important thing of all. Maybe…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The guide invited the crowd to imagine that they were looking across a desert at a mountain range on a day that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep." "All…

— Kurt Vonnegut

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves… It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge…

— Kurt Vonnegut

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would…

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“When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to raise…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Did that really happen?" said Maggie White. She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at…

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“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“…he closed the venetian blinds and then the drapes, and he lay down on the outside of the coverlet. But sleep would…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordance with the Third…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of…

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Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In Trout's novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“This is certainly that kind of masterpiece, and a new name should be created for such an all-frequencies assault on the sensibilities.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many-fold. And the end is not yet.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Billy looked at the clock on the gas stove. He had an hour to kill before the saucer came. He went into…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach,…

— Kurt Vonnegut