“Mean Mr. MustardSuch a dirty old manSuch a dirty old man”
“I still contend that Shakespeare is a dirty old man.”
“So Old Man Date Rape was number what?" she asks. "Four or five?""We're not counting him," I say. "This is the Twenty Boy Summer, not the Twenty Dirty Old Man Summer.”
“The stink of rot and ruin, of old dreams, broken screams, and wicked, dirty little things.”
“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians... the evil was there... waiting.”
“The front door had been secure at some point in time, I suppose, but now it usually hung ajar by a few inches, the gap‐toothed grin of a dirty old man.”