Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
Kurt VonnegutIt was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.
Kurt VonnegutGive your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Kurt VonnegutSome persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.
Kurt VonnegutPowers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.
Kurt Vonnegut