What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Q: What is wrong with the world? A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those… — 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
