Kurt Vonnegut
Quotes
"Now I will destroy the whole world." ... It’s what Bokonists always say when they are about to commit suicide.
I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific.
We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do,
What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must;
Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,
Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.
“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn’t born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”
"It's all so simple, that's all. It solves so much for so many, so simply."
I had heard it suggested one time that the seasons in the temperate zone should be six rather than four in number: summer, autumn, locking, winter, unlocking, and spring. And I remembered that as I straightened up beside our manhole, and stared and listened and sniffed. There were no smells. There was no movement. Every step I took made a gravelly squeak in blue-white frost. And every squeak was echoed loudly. The season of locking was over. The earth was locked up tight.It was winter, now and forever.
Her breasts were like pomegranates or what you will, but like nothing so much as a young woman's breasts.
Never had I seen a human being better adjusted to such a humiliating physical handicap. I shuddered with admiration.
"If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who."
Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn’t have the slightest idea what’s really going on.
"I'm indestructible. And, even if I did fall, Christmas angels would catch me.""They’ve been known to miss."
