“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes! — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you… — 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