“That's a mistake,' he said. 'You miss an awful lot of life that way. That's why you Yankees are so cold,' he… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of un-differentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. I have caught life. I have come down… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and with a definite… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The wreckers against the builders!” said Elmer. “There’s the whole story of life!” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My life is nothing but room for you...It could never be filled by anyone but you.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My God-- life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?' 'Don't try,' he said. 'Just pretend you understand.' 'That's-- that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at once.There is no beginning, no middle,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It took us so long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Life is a garden, not a road. We enter and exit through the same gate. Wandering, where we go matters less than… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ... — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end… — 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
