It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

She sounds the way bananas taste.