So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The biggest truth to face now – what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life – is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back… — 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
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental… — 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