I am becoming old and queer. - Sherwood Anderson

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

Artık çok da bir işe yaramayan yaşlı bedeniyle hareketsizce uzanıyordu ama içinde tamamen genç olan bir şey vardı. Hamile bir kadınla arasındaki tek fark, karnında bir bebek değil, bir genç taşıyor olmasıydı.

Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.