In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.
You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae
I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.
I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.