“Nice, nice, very nice-- So many different people in the same device.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could… — 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
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?…The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore. — 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