The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“His situation, insofar as he was a machine, was complex, tragic, and laughable. But the sacred part of him, his awareness, remained… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of… — 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
The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, God became the Heaven and the Earth... And God said, 'Let Me be light," and He was light.” — 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