Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
Kurt VonnegutBeer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
Kurt VonnegutShe upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
Kurt Vonnegut