“ Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. Kurt Vonnegut
“ I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, wh… Kurt Vonnegut
“ If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very huma… Kurt Vonnegut
“ When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I m… Kurt Vonnegut
“ Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare.This world is not a vale of sorro… Kurt Vonnegut
“ Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. Kurt Vonnegut
“ People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't… Kurt Vonnegut
“ Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Chris… Kurt Vonnegut
“ True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut
“ The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. Kurt Vonnegut
“ I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: C-Students from Yale.George W. Bush has gathered around h… Kurt Vonnegut
“ Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Kurt Vonnegut
“ Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. Kurt Vonnegut
“ The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and th… Kurt Vonnegut
“ Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays sh… Kurt Vonnegut
