He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.

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

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.