“You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.”

“I have never learned how to arrangemy face into that blank expression of competent invisibility that is so useful when traveling in dangerous, foreign places. You know—that super-relaxed, totally-in-charge expressionwhich makes you look like you belong there, anywhere, everywhere, even in the middle of a riot in Jakarta. Oh, no. When I don’t know what I’m doing, I look like I don’t know what I’m doing.When I’m excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently,I look lost. My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought. As David once put it, “You have the opposite of poker face. You have, like . . . miniature golf face.”

“You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.”

“I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.”

“See not the face..but only the eyes, of the poker face.”

“He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it—you can see it all over their faces.”