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
“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
“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
“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
