And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit?

The two of them went down in a heap, with not even a turkey to break their fall.

If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and the manuscript for THE BIG O.

We lost the crickets.

The name's Bond. James Omar Bond.

We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.