Then he smiled, like a cat who had just been entrusted with the keys to a home for wayward but plump canaries.

“We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or m…”

“Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The…”

“I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know wher…”

“He had gone beyond the world of metaphor ”