I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ... — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool! — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,… — 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
Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The… — 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