Thomas Griesedieck

“In my father’s last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“They had come to praise him.
"It was so beautiful, so comical, so true to life!" the doctor said.
The little girl gave him the flowers and the Mayor embraced him lightly. "Oh, we thought, signore," he said, "that you were merely a poet.”
― John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

“He looked like a man who could make trouble, a man who looked after his money, a man who was not quite a gentleman.”
― John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

“Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.”
― Cormac McCarthy