Diane

“She hated people that thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“There was the human body, which was so clearly designed to want babies--and then there was the human mind, which was so confused about the matter. Sometimes the mind didn't want the babies, but sometimes the mind was so perverse that it made other people have babies they knew they didn't want. For whom was this insisting done? Dr. Larch wondered. For whom did some minds insist that babies, even clearly unwanted ones, must be brought, screaming, into the world?”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan