“I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke.”

“This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!”

“There was enough glamour in that one corner to choke a dragon.”

“We offer a stark contrast to the bland escapism that chokes the charts,”

“We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.”

“It's just that I don't think friends tie friends to the bedpost."James choked on his tea. "Caroline, you have no idea.”