It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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