“Now and then goldfish splish and gleam, like new pennies dropped in water.”
“My goldfish is swimming around all excited inside the fishbowl on the fridge so I reach up and drop a Valium in its water.”
“I find myself staring at the goldfish. Bright as a penny, he swims in circles, happy to be going nowhere.”
“And don't forget to water the fuckin' goldfish.”
“There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.”
“He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.”