“Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.”
“The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself out of his chamber and into Nepenthe's, so that he could tell her why he had not come to tell her why he had not come.”
“If he didn't get his cookie, then Harte would reacquaint himself with his hand.”
“There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.”
“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
“...getting six woman to agree on something is like getting Dr. Laura to agree with Howard Stern.”