“The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.”
“Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.”
“I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!”
“Handsome guy, Victor, in a brutal, black-Irish way. Like most New York bartenders, he was really an actor, or was it the reverse? ("Novelty")”
“The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows”
“If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”