there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read… — 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