Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a colour photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable.What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.

~ Meena Kandasamy

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

~ Philip José Farmer

We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.

~ John Green