Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“On an average day, 324,000 new babies are born into the world every day. During that same day, 10,000 persons, on an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Did that really happen?" said Maggie White. She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy took off his tri-focals and his coat and his necktie and his shoes, and he closed the venetian blinds and then… — 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
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“El arte no es posible si no baila como pareja de la muerte, decía.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“If everybody would leave him alone for just a little while, he thought, he wouldn't cause anybody any more trouble. He would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
