Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?