“ 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
“ The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. Kurt Vonnegut
“ So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they… Kurt Vonnegut
“ We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term w… Philip José Farmer
“ ... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight. John Green
“ What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It's the way they have of thinking that everything nice in the world is a gift to the poor people from… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it. Meena Kandasamy
“ The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would hav… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
