Verbo: aligeirar.

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must also be a beverage.

[...].

How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

[ Woody Allen: "Selections from the Allen Notebooks." Complete Prose. ]