“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“I have never identified with the "K" in Kafka's works, by the way. Having grown up in a democracy, I have dared… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr 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 Jr Copy Share Image
“He told me off camera that he was despised by his neighbors for remembering when it was time to forget.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“I tried to write a story about a reunion between my father and myself in heaven one time. An early draft of… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr 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 Jr Copy Share Image
“Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way… — Kurt Vonnegut jr Copy Share Image
“I spoke one time at the Library of Congress, in 1972, or so. A man stood up in the middle of the… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“I will tell you the one thing I really believe out of all the things there are to believe.” “All right,” I… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“All people are insane,” he said. “They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“myself have seen the bodies of schoolgirls who were boiled alive in a water tower by my own countrymen, who were proud… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“This is not the case. I find scant evidence in my nonfiction that I have matured at all. I cannot find a… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“All’s bad that ends badly, and it’s only the sick-minded who can feed on the past.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“The therapist, after a deeply upsetting investigation of normality at this time and place, was bound to conclude that a normal person,… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Then you’ll do it brilliantly, darling. You’ll get to Pittsburgh yet.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of gears whose… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors—mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture, mass murder.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
