Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. - Kurt Vonnegut

"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.

[America's soldiers] are being treated … like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.