Towards the stars and other stories - William Faulkner

I do not know what we were... but after twelve years I think we are like a lizard floating on the surface of the water, or isolated, and aimless, and tireless. Not on the surface of the water, but in the water's surface, in that dividing line that is neither air nor water, sometimes we dive beneath the water and sometimes we rise above it... towards the stars and other stories - William Faulkner