If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I’m going to lose weight for you,” she [Valencia Merble] said. “What?” “I’m going to go on a diet. I’m going to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Those boots were almost all he owned in this world. They were his home. An anecdote: One time a recruit was watching… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And then they saw bearded Billy Pilgrim in his blue toga and silver shoes, with his hands in a muff. He looked… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy Pilgrim: "You guys go on without me. I'll be alright." Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Dresden was destroyed on the night of February 13, 1945,” Billy Pilgrim began. “We came out of our shelter the next day.”… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“HERE IS HOW Billy Pilgrim lost his wife, Valencia. He was unconscious in the hospital in Vermont, after the airplane crashed on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy looked at the clock on the gas stove. He had an hour to kill before the saucer came. He went into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“So Billy experiences death for a while. It is simply violet light and a hum. There isn’t anybody else there. Not even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. I've finished my war book now. The next… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy Pilgrim, there in the creekbed, thought he, Billy Pilgrim, was turning to steam painlessly.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And now there was an acrimonious madrigal, with parts sung in all quarters of the car. Nearly everybody, seemingly, had an atrocity… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I, Billy Pilgrim, the tape begins, will die, have died, and always will die on February thirteenth, 1976.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“How- how did I get here?" "It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Hiroshima. So I’ve got to put something about it in my book. From the official Air Force standpoint, it’ll all be new.”… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
