In a contrast between 1960's astronauts consuming 'Tang' and crewmen on the Enterprise eating solid food: 'Why should a man give up the joy of ham and eggs if the technology will allow it?'

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money i…

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

[When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred …

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using…

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise-when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.