There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book… — 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
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — 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
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes -… — 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
