Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain. - Spider Robinson

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

She was pretty enough to make a preacher kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.