Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Galápagos Quotes

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.