[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.
Kurt VonnegutWhat geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.
Kurt Vonnegutegregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.
Kurt Vonnegut