Penner

“Are you like one of the lousy crowd cheering the Coptics who row out to the boat? You are not. You are a distinguished personality. You are a man of feeling. Among us poor drips at the human masquerade you come like an angel.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“…I saw an old beggar with his eyes closed sitting in the shells who had had written on his chest in mercurochrome: ‘Profit by my imminent death to send a greeting to your loved ones in Purgatory: 50 lire.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“I don't need a man to give me sympathy
Why I needed it before is a mystery”
― Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

“I cannot fathom this need for a life of congestion, of rubbing against one another, of endlessly pushing and shoving -- all the more so when right over there is so much free space.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus