Ruby Topper Morris

“The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms,”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“To talk casually
About an iris flower
Is one of the pleasures
Of the wandering journey.”
― Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned into a pillar of salt.
People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun.
This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“She said to him that the whole world suddenly seemed to be going crazy. He commented that there was nothing sudden about it, that it had belonged in a prison or a lunatic asylum for quite some time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard