“It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I said that all the damaging excesses of Americans in the past were motivated by loneliness rather than a fondness for sin.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a… — 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
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sure the bible might be the greatest story ever told, but the most popular story is about a couple who has a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My mother scared herself with her own queerness, and from that moment on I ceased to be her companion.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For many years I was the principal companion of my mother. She was a beautiful, talented, morbid person. I think she was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. I've finished my war book now. The next… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences… — 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.” — 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
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind. — 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
