Vera Beaton

“No young person on earth is so excellent in all respects as to need no uncritical love.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,' I said, 'but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night