You had no criminal record, not with us, anyway, but that didn’t tell me anything either; most people have no criminal record, and at least half of t… - Jack Finney

I had the evening to kill, but it didn’t want to die and fought back.

I like women, I never run them down as somehow inferior to men, and I have a contempt for men who do. And I think, for one thing, that women are just as principled as men—but they sure as hell aren’t the same kind of principles.

Once in a while you’re momentarily conscious of being happy. But I’m superstitious, and I picture Fate—best be respectful, and use a capital F—as a misty presence somewhere up in the sky but not too far away. Always listening, alert and ready to punish forbidden optimism.