“Eddie knelt and lifted a rock. ‘Lawyers,’ he whispered.”

“Never refer to a large dog as a friend - he is in custody and he knows it.”

“He said he didn’t like my kind and I was filled with the delirious expectation that he would identify me as a common species - that there were others like myself. I controlled my excitement, but he seemed to sense it - his gaze wavered uncertainly.”

“...to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size”

“Parker always felt things in his bones because, he said, it saved space”

“He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards”

“a story is ready when it falls from your face”