Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.

“At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The pr…”

“I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.”

“Low enough to put on a tophat and crawl under a rattlesnake”

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and…”