“To the best of my knowledge he had never even voted, and then someone must have told him something about politics, some convincing lie, or he read something – it’s usually one or the other – and he stopped being funny and turned mean and silent. That wasn’t so bad, but then he stopped being silent.”

“To the best of my knowledge he had never even voted, and then someone must have told him something about politics, some convincing lie, or he read something – it’s usually one or the other – and he stopped being funny and turned mean and silent. That wasn’t so bad, but then he stopped being silent.”

— Charles Portis