Abraham

“Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’
     ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed.
     ‘Raymond?’ Burt said incredulously.
     ‘I had to give him a name, didn’t I?”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

“I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation from Round River