Bug Quotes

“From what I knew Australia was a sort of inferno populated by kangaroos and cacti, where people disappear forever.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug

“This was going to go on for a while, I knew that from the beginning, because Grandpa is not one to race through a discussion in two points. Still, hope springs eternal that the program will be canceled by a stray meteorite or terrorist attack with many dead.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug

“You know, ninety-nine point nine nine nine times out of a hundred, what people think is complete crap, he said, raising his skinny shoulders.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug

“By adding new components to the existing program, he'd been able to thread in obstinacy, ferocity, a sense of humor, malice in short, all the extras that make a machine resemble a human being.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug

“Sometimes I just stare out the window. It's unbelievable how lovely just two plane trees, a slice of sky, and the facade of the building across the street can be. A narrow view like that has birds, insects, rays of sunlight, shadows, gusts of wind, paper flying about, human faces and backs, butterflies, drops of water, rivulets, clouds, airplanes, vapor trails. Also, love stories, quarrels, solitary travels, escapes, reunions. Impossible to put down all the ideas that come to mind looking at those good things — ideas that before I realize it have become the signs that aggravate the teachers.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug

“Imida — sideburns long and hairy, dressed for a motorcycle movie of the high handlebar genre — got out of his vehicle.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug

“It was very important not to confuse one's fantasies – although this happens to everybody – with facts, reality.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug

“It's true, sometimes the secrets burst out of me like uninvited belches.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug

“My mood, though, was down at the level of my socks.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug

“If the snow had really arrived it would have buried all that wet and turmoil because snow is seraphic, it pacifies the molecules and people.”
― Giacomo Sartori, Bug