""Goodness," I babbled, "but how awful for you. Not drinking, I mean. I mean, imagine getting up in the morning knowin…"

"To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal."

"Somewhere in the trash he reads Martland has read that heavy men walk with surprising lightness and grace; as a resul…"

"I could almost hear him scrabbling about in his brain for a deft, light opening. His Oscar Wilde touch. Martland has …"

"No no, Jock…we're going to push him out of a window. Your bedroom window, I think. Yes, and we'll undress him first a…"

"Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never und…"

"He had made one mistake in an otherwise flawless performance: he hadn't told me his name. Have you ever exchanged thr…"

"Ten minutes later I was in an enormous taxi-cab, an air-conditioned one, hired for the day for fifty dollars; it seem…"

"It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You…"

"I don't much care about tea-drinking in the afternoon; in the morning the stuff Jock brings to me in bed is like that…"