My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“One sort of optional thing you might do is to realize there are six seasons instead of four. The poetry of four… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.”… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A moment went by, and then every cell in Billy's body shook him with ravenous gratitude and applause.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep." "All… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any man can call time out but no man can say how long the time will be out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?" "Yes." Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. All moments, past,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past...all moments past, present and… — kurt vonnegut Copy Share Image
People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is simply this. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time” — 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
