It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!