“It would sound like a dream,” said Billy. “Other people’s dreams aren’t very interesting usually.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy's smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa's, for he was simultaneously on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He supposed that they were part of an amazing new phase of World War Two. It was all right with him. Everything… — 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
“Most Tralfamadorians had no way of knowing Billy's body and face were not beautiful. They supposed that he was a splendid specimen.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. He has gone back through that door… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy was displayed there in the zoo in a simulated Earthling habitat. Most of the furnishings had been stolen from the Sears… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
