Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Introduction, "About This Play"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)
Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Introduction, "About This Play"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (p. 303)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
A close paraphrase of this (beginning "Do not use...") is repeated in a commencement address at Cloves Hall, 27 April 2007, as reprinted in Armageddon in Retrospect
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Kurt Vonnegut book Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
“Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.”
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 165; epigram)
As quoted in Science Fictionisms (1995), compiled by William Rotsler
Various interviews
“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.”
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country (2005)
“George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.”
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country (2005)
As quoted in "Vonnegut's Blues For America" Sunday Herald (7 January 2006)
Various interviews
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (p. 313)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)