You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

She had eyes like strange sins.

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.