We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.