1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly: That's not so ignorant after all. There are two monsters in my story, not one And one of them, the scientist, is indeed named Frankenstein.

It's a widely accepted principle,' he says, 'that you can claim a piece of land which has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, if only you repeat this mantra endlessly: 'We discovered it, we discovered it, we discovered it....

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark,And a sleeping drunkardup in central park, and a Chinese dentistand a British queenAll fit togetherin the same machine. Nice, nice,such very differentpeople in the same device!

El poder nos corrompe, y el poder absoluto corrompe de forma absoluta. Los seres humanos son chimpancés que nos emborrachamos con el poder.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

Here's all she had to say about death: "Oh my, oh my.

But his head no longer sheltered ideas of how things could be and should be on the planet, as opposed to how they really were. There was only one way for the Earth to be, he thought: the way it was.Everything was necessary. He saw an old white woman fishing through a garbage can. That was necessary. He saw a bathtub toy, a little rubber duck, lying on its side on the grating over a storm sewer. It had to be there.

He told Trout about people he'd heard of in the area who grabbed live copperheads and rattlesnakes during church services, to show how much they believed that Jesus would protect them.'Takes all kinds of people to make up a world,' said Trout.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.