Quotation

… The populist movement, the stranglehold on the dollar by industrial interests, the theft of public lands by the railroads, anarchists throwing bombs, and company ginks shooting down strikers on picket lines. I wouldn’t wish my father on my worst enem. If he gets sent to hell, I think the devil will quit his job. You haven’t lived long enough. The dead don’t let go of the world. That’s why we put big stones on their graves. To hold them down. He’s sewn goat testicles on impotent men. The ones who have survived his procedures don’t know whether to bleat or yodel. “Who said you have to die to go to hell?” he said to himself. “I heard that,” she said. “Say it again and see what happens.”