“Mourning is hard business,” Cesare said.” If people knew, there’d be less death.”

- Bernard Malamud’s “Life Is Better Than Death”

“I’m good and tired of all these big personalities, destiny molders, and heavy-water brains, Machiavellis and wizard evildoers, big wheels and imposers-upon, absolutists.”

- Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March

“Let us say before I go any further, that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generation to come.”

- Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies