"All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once that moment is gone it is gone forever."
- Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer."
- Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren’t necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next."
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of a massacre of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee."
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too."
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
