Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“He flung away his rubber-ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“You know what the trouble is with New York?” she asked me. “No,” I said. “Nobody here,” she said, “believes that there…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I then believed that a rich man should have some understanding of the place from which his riches came. That was very…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“America,” wrote Kilgore Trout in MTYOAP: “is the interplay of three hundred million Rube Goldberg contraptions invented only yesterday.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I thought that was pretty good. So then I disturbed my father at his typewriter, and asked him what my heritage was…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

A Lovers a liar, to himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, like oysters their eyes

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“This is not the case. I find scant evidence in my nonfiction that I have matured at all. I cannot find a…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“All’s bad that ends badly, and it’s only the sick-minded who can feed on the past.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Be warned: If you allow yourself to see dignity in someone, you have doomed yourself to wanting to understand and help whoever…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“People are too good for this world.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I could carve a better man out of a banana.’” One of the things Rumfoord had told Lily to get”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“It wasn't Mamigonian who made my parents stay in San Ignacio instead of moving to Fresno, say, where there really was an…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Did that really happen?” said Maggie White. She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“If you find your life tangled up with somebody else’s life for no very logical reasons,” writes Bokonon, “that person may be…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that your high school class is running the country.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Other people say, “Hello” or “Goodbye!” We always say, “Excuse me,” no matter what we’re doing.’ He threw up his hands. ‘No…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr