“You would think that a man who's spent as much time in the theater as I have would know when the proper… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Well here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment...” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There in the hospital, Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: He was trying… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at once.There is no beginning, no middle,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.” — 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
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The unity in every second of all time and all wandering mankind, all wandering womankind, all wandering children.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And then it developed that Campbell was not going to go unanswered after all. Poor old Derby, the doomed high school teacher,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He often said that he wished that he could be a stone mason like me. He said a stone mason would have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Kilgore Trout was shadowing him, keen to know what Billy had suspected or seen. Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with… — 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
