Chuck

“Do they pay you by the hour or what? Norwood said to the monocled peanut face.”
― Charles Portis, Norwood

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Babcock knew no Southerners personally but he had seen them in court often enough...and Ed's manner and appearance said Dixie to him. He imagined Ed at home with his family, a big one, from old geezers to toddlers. He saw them eating their yams and pralines and playing their fiddles and dancing their jigs and guffawing over coarse jokes and beating one another to death with agricultural implements.”
― charles portis, Masters of Atlantis

“I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.”
― P.G. Wodehouse