“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”

“I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.”

“I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.”

“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”

“Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.”

“Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.”