The face of a man who had sipped life's vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly whiskey, and good whiskey at that.

“I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, r…”

“She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called h…”

“He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old…”

“The telephone to Shadow's apartment was silent and dead. He thought about getti…”