“Some women will spread a lie faster and wider than they’d spread their legs. These women are worse than whores. These women are politicians.”
“Facebook has been spreading across the continents faster than a highly contagious Asian bird flu!”
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
“A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.”
“Someone has to spread the good news that we survived.”