“Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.”
“The Second Law of Pies: they must be baked, not fried (or boiled, or steamed).”
“Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.”
“And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.”
“But I'd run two miles and when I stepped inside our cool, dark house, I yelled up the stairs to Mom, "I ran two miles with Daddy, Mom! I'm strong! I'm strong!" And I punched the wall and could feel the plaster and lath behind the wallpaper, though I had no words for them.”
“I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into a large frying pan.”