We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Look at him! That's life, according to the medical profession. Isn't life wonderful?” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every living creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. it amuses them that so many… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — 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
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Enjoy life while you can. Nothing's gonna happen for maybe five, ten, fifteen, twenty years. But lemme give you a piece of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains,… — 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
“I had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was… — 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
“I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not,” said Trout. “It’s dangerous, I know, and it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, "I think you guys are going to have to come up with lot… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The painter's face curdled with scorn "You think I'm proud of this daub?" he said. "You think this is my idea of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker… — 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
“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
