Kurt Vonnegut
Quotes
“As far as I know, Bokononism is the only religion that has any commentary on midgets.”
Little Newt snorted. "Religion!""Beg your pardon?" Castle said."See the cat?" asked Newt. "See the cradle?"
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.
“She said his mind was turned to the biggest music there was, the music of the stars.”
And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely."Everything must have a purpose?” asked God."Certainly," said man."Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.And He went away.
God never wrote a good play in His life.
The people down there are poor enough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have some common sense!
The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world.
Never index your own book.
It was the belief of Bokonon that good societies could be built only by pitting good against evil, and by keeping tension between the two high at all times.
Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
"I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.""Nice going, God!""Nobody but You could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.""I feel very unimportant compared to You.""The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around."
