(...) next year she would have another birthday, and if she just remembered to get into bed left foot first and to turn the pillow over before she we… - William Faulkner

Човекът е сбор от какво ли не. Задача с нечисти свойства, прилежно доведена до една неизменна нула: безизходица от прах и желания.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself.