The snail, presumably, to bolster the self-esteem of the turtles: You think we’re slow? Look at that guy. To shore up the snail’s morale in the same way, there was a rock. Everyone is happier if they...
Style can’t be denied, Lemon. That’s the difference between you and me: you a slave to fashion and I’m a sultan of style.
She looked at him—those wide blue eyes—with sort of an odd, glazed look. Not with the adoration or wonder that you might expect, more like she’d been drinking and would be leaving as soon as she found...
Oh, goddamn, said Minty Fresh (damn on the downbeat, with pain and sustain). Goddamn, my hood and grille are all fucked up. Goddamn. I will tolerate the rising of darkness to cover the world, but you...
Louvre’s a little pious, isn’t it? Can’t throw a round of darts in there without scoring three Madonnas and a baby Jesus.
LIke many artists, Estelle lived in an atmosphere of chaotic funk, taken by observers to be artistic charm, but in fact no more than a civilized way of dealing with the relative poverty and uncertaint...
Josh: What is this thing?Gasper: It's a Yeti. An abominable snowman.Biff: This is what happens when you fuck a sheep?Josh: Not an abomination, abominable.
Josh se alejó despacio, más o menos en dirección a aquella montaña. El monte Tabor, creo que era. La señora Zebedeo se puso a perseguir a sus hijos como quien persigue pollos
If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the res...
I wouldn't go to yoga with you because I'm not bendy, not because I'm not spiritual.
I so adored her when she let her warrior queen armor fall, and came, silly and giggling, into my arms.
I don't know. I don't really have a plan. I don't even know if she's lucid. I've been on autopilot since I heard. I was waiting for you to get home so I could fall apart.
I don't know,' Charlie said. 'Have you gotten a good look at them? I mean, they got the badonkadonk out back and some fine bajoopbadangs up front, know what I'm sayin', dog? Buss a rock wid a playa?'...
Have you never met anyone who works in a record store? There’s no greater repository of unjustified arrogance in the world. I’d poison my employees if I thought I could find replacements.
Don’t ask me how he got here, or what he really is. I think we’ve all learned over the years that the sooner we accept the simple explanation for the unexplained, the better chance we have of survivin...
Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take...
Come with us, I said, and we will make you oarlock makers of men. What? said Joshua. That’s what they were doing when we came up. Making an oarlock. Now you see how stupid that sounds? It’s not the sa...
Clair put down her knife and pickle, then wiped her hands. As she came toward Clay she pulled a large bobby pin from the back of her hair, and her long, thick locks cascaded down her back. She took Cl...
But there was no gangrene or amputations like the doctors threatened, and we got a B, so I don’t see what all the noise and counseling was about. Anyway,
Beta Males make excellent spies. Not the James Bond, Aston Martin with missiles, boning the beautiful Russian rocket scientist on an ermineskin bedspread sort of spy—more the bad comb-over, deep-cover...