Jesse Ward-Bond

“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan

“Bereavement is not the truncation of married love, but one of its regular phases---like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby