Pio Pezzi

“You can't make a race horse of a pig."
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“I was always certain that I'd hear from you again - not like this, though, I had expected to spot you on a street somewhere, at a bus stop perhaps ... you would reply, calmly (never being one to register surprise), "Hello, Billy," as if all that time in between had been nothing more than an energizing summer nap. But there I go again playing scenarist.”
― Brent Wade, Company Man

“Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions