Col Kilgore Quotes

#1. Kilgore Trout owned a parakeet named Bill. Like Dwayne Hoover, Trout was all alone at night, except for his pet. Trout, too, talked to his pet. But while Dwayne babbled to his Labrador retriever about love, Trout sneered and muttered to his parakeet about the end of the world.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's country, where there was still plenty of everything, was opposed to Communism. It didn't think that Earthlings who had a lot should share it with others unless they really wanted to, and most of them didn't want to. So they didn't have to. ***

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Jesus
if Kilgore Trout could only write! Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. There is a planet in the Solar System where the people are so stupid they didn't catch on for a million years that there was another half to their planet. - Kilgore Trout

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. I love the smell of turbines in the morning.

Lynn Kilgore

#6. Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: Make me young, make me young, make me young!

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies.

Brian Spellman

#8. aunt Bela would be most pleased." "Wait a second," I said. "You know Bela Kilgore?" The man in the fez smiled. "Oh, yes, Kidd

James Patterson

#9. If I'd had a bazooka, I could have blown a hole in the wall between us. If I hadn't killed one or both of us, I could have asked you, 'What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like that?'

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#10. Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

Kilgore Trout

#11. Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

Russ Potts

#12. If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

Ian Anderson

#13. There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

David Brooks

#15. True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.

Chan Kilgore

#16. The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. Somebody in the back of the room squealed. Classic. It doesn't matter what time of day it happens - the power goes out, and somebody yelps like the building's collapsing.

Rick Yancey

#18. Sometimes I look back at what I just typed and truly question if there is a disconnect between my brain and fingers that I should be concerned with.

C.E. Kilgore

#19. Let me note that Kilgore Trout and I have never used semicolons. They don't do anything, don't suggest anything. They are transvestite hermaphrodites.

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. So as long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide