I have this heavy addiction to life and I'm told that the withdrawal symptoms are shocking. - Kyril Bonfiglioli

Sleep slunk up like a black panther and sank its kindly fangs into what remained of the Mortdecai brain.

A moral coward, you see, is simply someone who has read the fine print on the back of his Birth Certificate and seen the little clause which says "You can't win."

Somewhere in the trash he reads Martland has read that heavy men walk with surprising lightness and grace; as a result he trips about like a portly elf hoping to be picked up by a leprechaun.