“To all my friends and enemies in the buckeye state. Come on over. There's room for everybody in Shangri-La.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was an archaic expression of friendship by an undisciplined man in an age when most men seemed in mortal fear of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You got troubles, I got troubles--everybody's got troubles, whether they've got a lot of money or a little money or no money.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They had managed to convert their wealth, which had originally been in the form of factories or stores or other demanding enterprises,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the… — 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