Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its
excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's
crapping creatures can convert its bodily wastes into treasure?

It is 

questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response 

to life.

tom robbins, even cowgirls get the blues

He could not go on. Weeping in silence, he slipped his arm beneath her head to serve as a pillow, and she curled up at his side. And so they remained, not sleeping, not talking, until the roosters began to crow and he had to hurry to arrive in time for five-o'clock Mass. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Of love and other demons.