God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And somebody might now want to ask me, "Can't you ever be serious?" The answer is, "No.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have to eat.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Someday son all this will be yours. Father and son atop a garbage dump.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You say very funny things. I am sorry I can't say funny things back. This is not a funny time for me.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If those birds hadn't been so stupid, so incapable of learning that human beings were dangerous, the first settlers would almost certainly… — 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
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image