If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise. — 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
The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher… — 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
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient… — 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
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
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people,… — 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
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. — 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
All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes… — 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. — 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
The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out… — 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
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
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam… — 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
