“...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 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.”

“The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His skull broke like the vase and the vase broke like his skull, and both burst forth water mainly, and from the vase some flowers. If I could choose a death I’d make it something like that, except I’d add a good woman and some lard.”

“Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far”

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

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