“I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work”
“We did sixty-nine that night. Larry went on top so he didn’t get squished. He’s really good at sucking dick. I wondered if he’d got exams in that too.”
“That’s a good hustle,” I told him. “We both got a little hustle, don’t we?” He pulled on his jacket. “But I like to think we got more heart.”
“I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.”
“You know something, Red? … I think we got a good thing going on here.”
“You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.”