“What makes so many Americans proud of their ignorance? They act as though their ignorance somehow made them charming.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to excoriate Woodrow Wilson after he has had several strong drinks. He goes on to say that it was Wilson who persuaded this country that… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Then you’ll do it brilliantly, darling. You’ll get to Pittsburgh yet.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee. Back in the mid-1950's, he was employed for Sports Illustrated, briefly. He reported back to work, was asked to write a short piece on a racehorse that jumped over a fence and tried to run away.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of gears whose… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors—mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture, mass murder.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
