Benden ne söylememi beklediğini biliyorum," dedi. "Genç olmayı yeğlerdim dememi bekliyorsun. Çoğu insana sorsan, genç olmayı yeğleyeceğini söyler. Gençken sağlığın, gücün kuvvetin yerindedir. Benim yaşıma geldiğinde ise hiç iyi olamazsın. Ayaklarımdan fena çekiyorum, mesanem de berbat durumda. Gecede altı yedi kez yataktan kaldırıyor beni. Öte yandan, yaşlı adam olmanın da büyük avantajları var. Aynı dertlerin tasaların olmuyor.
'I know what you expect me to say,' he said. 'You expect me to say as I'd sooner be young again. Most people'd say they'd sooner be young, if you arst 'em. You got your 'ealth and strength when you're young. When you get to my time of life you ain't never well. I suffer something wicked from my feet, and my bladder's jest terrible. Six and seven times a night it 'as me out of bed. On the other 'and there's great advantages in being a old man. You ain't got the same worries.
Ho xort!
Xortê Kurd,
Pêşengê xebat,
Hêviya welat,
Kurrê bav û dê
Ji bo azadî,
Ji bo serbestî,
Bi șev û bi roj,
Me divê xebat,
Heval ù hevrê,
Azadî, bi dürketine..
Beri her tiştî, ji her ramanek,
Ku me bi dûrxe
ji armanca me.
"I didn't feel like explaining my own girlfriend problems, not to him. It was only quite recently that I had managed to extricate myself from a long, claustrophobic relationship with a girl in California whom we will call Kathy. I met her my first year of college, and was initially attracted to her because she seemed an intelligent, brooding malcontent like myself, but after about a month, during which time she'd firmly glued herself to me, I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath."
Hilarious