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
There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If… — 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
You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: "For reasons obvious… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that… — 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