If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard… — 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