“Just when you think there isn't any point to life - "he said, "then, all of a sudden, you realize that you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And the charming little cottage he'd taken as a symbol of the good life of a farmer was as irrelevant as a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Make your characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“...all subjects do not reside in neat little compartments, but are continuous and inseparable from the one big subject we have been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. I have caught life. I have come down… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — 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
“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
“Dear Friends: As one who has experimented extensively with life in the home and community, using real people in true-life situations, I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I can’t tell if you’re serious or not,” said the driver. “I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is… — 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
“There are no dirty words in this book, except for 'hell' and 'God', in case someone is fearing that an innocent child… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as… — 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
“If we had fooled her last night, I would have considered my life at a satisfactory end, with all debts paid. I… — 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
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image