“I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy got off his lounge chair now, went into the bathroom and took a leak. The crowd went wild.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears. — 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
