Luca Zoo Franzoni

“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

“Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million

“They haven’t the mental equipment for leisure.”
― Nathanael West