“In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
“We would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams”
“The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.”
“Yeah, that's right. You're stuck with me now, and I don't have a nice rack for you to snuggle up to.”
“It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now.”