“Fungi have as much right to life as I do. they know what they want, Bill. Damned if I do anymore.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. — 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
“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
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
“...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
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
“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
There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing… — 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
“Fred Bockman is thirty and looks eighteen. Life has left no marks on him, because he hasn’t paid much attention to it.” — 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
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
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — 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
“But, to Shepherd, life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and… — 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
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
“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
“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
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is… — 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
“Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, "I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of… — 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
What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool! — 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
“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
“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
“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
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
