She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.

I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

Do it for the fat lady!

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.