“They passed a farmhouse, a simple shack surrounded by animals — a lazy burro, clucking chickens, a litter of pigs. The farmhouse stood alone in the desolate landscape. There was no sign of a living person anywhere. And then it was gone, lost in the swirling dust plume of the car.” Michael Crichton book Zero Cool Zero Cool, written under the pseudonym John Lange (1969) Cars , Animals , Personality
“No, I wasn’t very smart, this I knew, but I was beginning to think that maybe, just maybe, I was some kind of crazy-loco genius, burro genius. I mean, to have been able to hold on to my Spirit for this long had to mean something.” Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004) Thinking