“Clearly, being anxious is a full-time and rather exhausting occupation.”

“After five years of military occupation, the French population of Illinois was exhausted and bewildered.”

“When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.”

“Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.”

“In a perfect world, Joshua's vertically gifted murderer would've had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly would've announced his full name, occupation, religious preference, preferably with his god's country and time period of origin, his goals, dreams, and aspirations, and the location of his lair. But nobody had ever accused post-Shift Atlanta of being perfect.”

“Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.”