“Four AM last call proved to me that the late-night hours had a mystical, ethereal quality ripe with dangerous possibilities.”
“Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.”
“Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.”
“Always be polite to possible murderers: that was the twenty-four-hour-shopping philosophy.”
“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”
“Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world.”