I work until beer o'clock.

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.