---
title: "2 Billy Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut Jr"
description: "2 Billy quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Plus more from Kurt Vonnegut Jr and more Billy sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_birth-and-death_he-has-seen-his-birth-and-death-many-tim_1349611.jpg"
---

> [“He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between. He says. Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/he-has-seen-his-birth-and-death-many-times-he-says-and-pays-random/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_birth-and-death_he-has-seen-his-birth-and-death-many-tim_1349611.jpg)

> [“Billy now leaned over that parapat, looked down at all the people moving hither and yon. They were jerky little scissors. They were a lot of fun.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/billy-now-leaned-over-that-parapat-looked-down-at-all-the-people/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b31/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_quote_billy-now-leaned-over-that-parapat-looke_2205473.jpg)

## Other authors on Billy

## More by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

> [“Lucky me , Lucky mud”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/lucky-me-lucky-mud/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“I wonder about turtles.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/i-wonder-about-turtles/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“Then you’ll do it brilliantly, darling. You’ll get to Pittsburgh yet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/then-you-ll-do-it-brilliantly-darling-you-ll-get-to-pittsburgh-yet/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/there-is-room-enough-for-an-awful-lot-of-people-to-be-right-about/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 an employee.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/he-often-said-he-had-to-be-a-writer-because-he-wasn-t-good-at/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/the-zero-in-the-telephone-number-he-pronounced-naught-the-number-was/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/jones-wasn-t-completely-crazy-the-dismaying-thing-about-the-classic/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 gears whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/i-have-never-seen-a-more-sublime-demonstration-of-the-totalitarian/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/no-respecter-of-evidence-has-ever-found-the-least-clue-as-to-what/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“Life is nothing but high school.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/life-is-nothing-but-high-school/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/and-halyard-suddenly-realized-that-just-as-religion-and-government/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors—mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture, mass murder.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/for-once-after-the-great-bloodbath-of-the-war-the-world-really-was/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“Him! Him! Captain Eliot Rosewater–Silver Star, Bronze Star, Soldier's Medal, and Purple Heart with Cluster! Sailing champion! Ski champion! Him! Him! My God–the number…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/him-him-captain-eliot-rosewater-silver-star-bronze-star-soldier-s/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/no-art-is-possible-without-a-dance-with-death-he-wrote-the/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

> [“No trouble. There really isn’t a heck of a lot to the job.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/no-trouble-there-really-isn-t-a-heck-of-a-lot-to-the-job/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billy/kurt-vonnegut-jr/#itemlist",
            "name": "2 Billy Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut Jr",
            "numberOfItems": 2,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between. He says. Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to act in next.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/he-has-seen-his-birth-and-death-many-times-he-says-and-pays-random/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_birth-and-death_he-has-seen-his-birth-and-death-many-tim_1349611.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_birth-and-death_he-has-seen-his-birth-and-death-many-tim_1349611.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_birth-and-death_he-has-seen-his-birth-and-death-many-tim_1349611.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“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",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Billy now leaned over that parapat, looked down at all the people moving hither and yon. They were jerky little scissors. They were a lot of fun.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/billy-now-leaned-over-that-parapat-looked-down-at-all-the-people/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b31/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_quote_billy-now-leaned-over-that-parapat-looke_2205473.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b31/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_quote_billy-now-leaned-over-that-parapat-looke_2205473.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b31/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_quote_billy-now-leaned-over-that-parapat-looke_2205473.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Billy now leaned over that parapat, looked down at all the people moving hither and yon. They were jerky…” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billy/kurt-vonnegut-jr/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billy/kurt-vonnegut-jr/",
            "name": "Billy Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billy/kurt-vonnegut-jr/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/kurt-vonnegut-jr-2355_birth-and-death_he-has-seen-his-birth-and-death-many-tim_1349611.jpg"
            },
            "description": "2 Billy quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Plus more from Kurt Vonnegut Jr and more Billy sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billy/kurt-vonnegut-jr/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billy/kurt-vonnegut-jr/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Billy",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billy/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billy/kurt-vonnegut-jr/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```