How embarrassing to be human.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

I asked Rob Roy where he had gone to college. 'Yale,' he said. I told him what Helen Dole said about Yale, that it ought to be called 'Plantation Owners' Tech.…

'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said. 'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'

Poor man. Poor mankind.

Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know

A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.