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

But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.

Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.

Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.