If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.
His books are exciting and powerful and โ if I may filch the word from the booksy ones โ pulsing.
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.