Bokonon Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“There was no castle. You were simply listening to a record. A needle, swaying lightly on a black frozen pond, Led the voices of…

— Czesław Miłosz

“The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as…

— Charles Bukowski

“Once I got into a place where I had to get up and leave. I was invited into a home, and they had a…

— D.L. Moody

“I liked sleeping in the attic. There was no Crucifixion scene hanging at the foot of the bed to trouble me. There were no…

— Tracy Chevalier

“That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It mad me…

— J.D. Salinger

“No- it was the best. Kind of joint where everyone checked their worries at the door. The beer was cold, the jokes came easy,…

— Anna Godbersen

“I've never seen a world So festering with damnation. I have left Rings of beer on every alehouse table From the salt sea-coast across…

— Christopher Fry

“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible…

— Samuel Beckett

“A heavy, peppery steam spiraled skyward and the remains of our house spit and stammered like the last stubborn kernels of popping corn. Everyone…

— Sam Harris

“They were like two recovering alcoholics, hopped up on caffeine and Twelve Step gospel, telling each other how glad they were to be sober…

— Lev Grossman

“There aren’t any pretty women to kiss here, Kiernan, or games to play or pranks to set. No plays to see, no music halls…

— Eilis O'Neal

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…

— Joseph Conrad