Clyde

“Mentre per qualcosa di molto più complesso, come la città in cui ci si trova, si vorrebbe sempre sapere esattamente quale particolare città sia. Questo distrae dall’essenziale.”
― Robert Musil, L'uomo senza qualità

“It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.'

Well, as my mother was a whore, and my father a drunk, I daresay I don't miss much.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Christmas Holiday

“It's better to be impulsive than cautious; fortune is female and if you want to stay on top of her you have to slap and thrust. You'll see she's more likely to yield that way than to men who go about her coldly. And being a woman she likes her men young, because they're not so cagey, they're wilder and more daring when they master her.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince