Michaela

“What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?”
― William Saroyan, Madness in the Family: Stories

“She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.”
― William Saroyan, Madness in the Family: Stories

“We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.”
― William Saroyan

“Vím
že mě nemáš ráda
ale já tě mám
v krvi rozpuštěnou
s bacily tetanu s vůní kouře a arniky a šlágry
tak starými
že je už vůbec nikdo nepamatuje”
― Václav Hrabě, Blues