Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. — 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
You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands.… — 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