It was love, I knew, and it tasted like champagne in my mind.

“Death's a capricious thing, innit?""Yes. Yes, she is.”

“Newton Pulsifer had never...as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It ha…”

“It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream fore…”

“I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he…”