At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

there is evil everywhere under the sun.