"'Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye."

"She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming."

"The whiskey is amazing to me. I wonder why I never realized that I would like it. I wonder why I never tried it befor…"

"I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest."

"She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out …"

"It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be…"

"And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice."

"I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love."

"The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that rad…"

"Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you wa…"