There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways. - Jonathan Lethem

He couldn't be more than twenty-five, but he obviously lived enough to have things to regret. He looked like he'd taken a long fall a short time ago. Pieces of the man he'd been were jumbled up with the new guy, the lost soul.

Scout, that's a good one," said the sergeant. "Danny-boy couldn't scout the inside of his eyelids.

on the one hand there’s mansplaining, and on the other, there’s the sound of a woman quoting the mansplaining to another woman.