To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You mustn't speak certain kinds of truth, not if you want to go on living.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Life is divided up into phases. Each one is very different from the others, and you have to be able to recognise… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The mind is the only thing about human beings that’s worth anything. Why does it have to be tied to a bag… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Unk had no way of judging the quality of the information contained in the letter. He accepted it all hungrily, uncritically. And,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The arts..are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me. — 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
