It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts… — 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
Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It… — 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
