“There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.”
“So you like to stretch the truth?" he asked me. "Stretch, fold, spindle, staple or cut, whatever it takes to get it to fit just right".”
“Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.”
“It was hard to admit that those days were over, but it was hard to admit that any days were over, that the days themselves didn't stretch like pulled taffy and sag to the floor.”
“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.”
“It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.”