If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

Pam: "Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.

Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter