Kurt Jr. Vonnegut

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

hummings and clickings could be heard--the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.

Strzeżcie się człowieka, który ciężko pracuje, aby się czegoś nauczyć, uczy się go i nie jest mądrzejszy niż przedtem "- mówi nam Bokonon. " Jest pełen morderczej urazy wobec ludzi, którzy są nieświadomi, ponieważ nie przeszli przez swoją ignorancję na własną rękę.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Jesteśmy tym, co udajemy.

We are what we pretend to be.

Nie bądźcie lekkomyślni z sercami innych ludzi... i nie przebywajcie z tymi, którzy są nierozważni wobec waszych.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, -- and don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

Nigdy nie ufaj ocalałemu, dopóki nie dowiesz się, jak przetrwały.

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.