“Ridiculous! Why don’t you go into gunrunning, and sell the ancient Athenians a couple of machine guns so they can win the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The very toughest reporters were women who had taken over the jobs of men who'd gone to war.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Unk was at war with his environment. He had come to regard his environment as being either malevolent or cruelly mismanaged. His… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“His ship was powered, and the Martian war effort was powered, by a phenomenon known as UWTB, or the Universal Will to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My narcotic was what had got me through the war; it was an ability to let my emotions be stirred by only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“But you’re not going to write it that way, are you.” This wasn’t a question. It was an accusation. “I—I don’t know,”… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A couple of weeks after I telephoned my old war buddy, Bernard V. O’Hare, I really did go to see him. That… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You were just babies in the war—like the ones upstairs!” I nodded that this was true. We had been foolish virgins in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We were stumbling sluts married to mud. When the war was over, nobody bothered to tell us. Our tragedy was permanent. No… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He supposed that they were part of an amazing new phase of World War Two. It was all right with him. Everything… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Weary was as new to war as Billy. He was a replacement, too. As a part of a gun crew, he had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from… — 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
