If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

Killing time is not an easy job.

To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.