“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”

“Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.”

“And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.”

“You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.”

“You know what the best security system is? Window shades.”

“I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely”

“He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.”