The lives of happy people are dense with their own doingscrowded, active, thick.... But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrows horizons are vague and its demands are few.
ATTRIBUTION:
Larry McMurtry (b. 1936), U.S. screenwriter, novelist, essayist. Some Can Whistle, pt. 4, ch. 9 (1989).