“It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings," said Paul, "not to serve as appendages… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was humanity's ability to heal so quickly, by means of babies, which encouraged so many people to think of explosions as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When you dare to think about how huge the illegal drug business is in this country, you have to suspect that practically… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“they were on the edge of a desert now. Still—they had opened for business, had polished the glasses and wound the clocks… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We talked about phonies. We talked about truth. We talked about gangsters; we talked about business. We talked about the nice poor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“we have now won the battle of the laboratories as we have won the other battles. We are now prepared to obliterate… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's father had done a similar… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“THE GERMANS AND THE DOG were engaged in a military operation which had an amusingly self-explanatory name, a human enterprise which is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Yes, and our sister's sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find… — 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