Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

With age, many men come down with testosterone autism, the symptoms of which are a gradual decline in social intelligence and capacity for interpersonal communication, as well as a reduced ability to formulate thoughts.

For the best conversations are with yourself. At least there’s no risk of a misunderstanding.

Whereas the allergy sufferers are always at war. I must surely be an allergy sufferer.

If people behave brutally toward Animals, no form of democracy is ever going to help them, in fact nothing will at all.”

I don’t like those high, powerful cars, made with war in mind, rather than walks in the lap of nature. Their large wheels churn up the ruts in the dirt roads and damage the footpaths. Their mighty engines make a lot of noise and produce exhaust fumes. I am convinced that their owners have small dicks and compensate for this deficiency by having large cars.

For some time I shared my bed with a Catholic, and nothing good came of it.

I couldn’t help thinking that someone who overuses the phrase “in truth” is sure to be a liar.

People who spend all day tramping about the forest in search of mushrooms are bound to be deadly boring.