Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

What can you say about the family who is suing the railroad after their drunk son was killed walking on the tracks? Trains don't normally sneak up on people. Unless they've derailed, you pretty much know where to find them.

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

I see you that have a little swimming mouse

I've wasted a lot of time pretending to be interested in people who weren't terribly interesting.