If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were. — 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
How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental… — 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
