I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trnk as a coffin for the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“we have now won the battle of the laboratories as we have won the other battles. We are now prepared to obliterate… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The whole point of war is to put women everywhere in that condition. It's always men against women, with the men only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“American planes full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When I got home from the Second World War, mu Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, "You're a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“That was one of the things about the end of the war: Absolutely anybody who wanted a weapon could have one. They… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For having the courage to tell the truth during the war when everybody else was telling lies” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We are evidently preparing," he said, "to fight World War Three in the midst of an enormous Spanish omelet.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There would be Jews in the pageant?" I asked him. "Certainly-" he said, "thousands of them." "May I ask, sir," I said,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war. — 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
