“Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, "I think you guys are going to have to come up with lot… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s different chemicals that different countries eat that makes people act in different ways at different times,” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. He has gone back through that door… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think that could go back to the time when people had to live in small groups of relatives—maybe fifty or a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Stephen Hawking… found it tantalizing that we could not remember the future. But remembering the future is child's play for me now.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The guide invited the crowd to imagine that they were looking across a desert at a mountain range on a day that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody ... nobody was ridiculous or bad or disgusting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Only when people got back to when the timequake hit did they stop being robots of their pasts. Only when free will… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We have hugged each other maybe three or four times - on birthdays,very likely, and clumsily. We have never hugged in moments… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Eperience of the Past Million Years?' nothing.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In time, almost all men and women will become worthless as producers of goods, food, services, and more machines, as sources of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“How- how did I get here?" "It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The museums in children’s minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror—to protect the children from eternal grief. For… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are. — 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
