Bessie-isms:

Husbands frequently think they are the master of their wife, likely much like the sheep think they rule the shepherd.

*It used to be that every village had their own idiot. We’ve lost a great number of villages over the years, but the idiots made the journey to the big cities just fine.

Quotable:

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Thomas Wolfe