Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He also began to suspect, since he was so much busier than anybody else, that he was the leader” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Little lumps of lead in copper jackets were crisscrossing the woods under the shellbursts, zipping along much faster than sound.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was a beautifully simple picture these procession leaders had. It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If "the Nature Cruise of the Century" had come off as planned, the division of duties would have been typical of 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 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and "the damned… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“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 human beings were so stupid that they could only make things worse by speaking their minds. It was thinkers, after all, who had set up the death camps. Setting up a death camp, with its railroad… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share