“1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Make your characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The driver asked me if I would mind another brief detour, this time to a tombstone salesroom across the street from the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy licked his lips, thought a while, inquired at last: "Why me?" "That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“he lacked the guts or the wisdom, or maybe just the talent, to indicate somehow that time was liquid, that one moment… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Look forward to being really in love for the first time, Bea," said Rumfoord. “Look forward to behaving aristocratically without any outward… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“isn’t it time for your soul, which has been ashamed of your meat for so long, to thank your meat for finally… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice. — 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
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