Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.

Killing makes me feel good.

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.

It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one’s girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.