We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
Kurt VonnegutAll the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.
Kurt VonnegutIt was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.
Kurt VonnegutUse the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Kurt VonnegutHistorians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
Kurt VonnegutMy country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
Kurt Vonnegut