“Thank you,” she said icily. “I accept your good wishes and your resignation. And you can go to hell, Dave Hull.” Dave went to Texas. - Richard Wilson

I've made my choice, Sam," she had written. "I had to choose between what I wanted and what I could get. There are times when the ideal is just too unattainable and when the second best becomes, in the long run, the best. Maybe this also has a universal application. I hope so.

'Morning, Sam," the coffee boy said. "How about some coffee?"
"'Morning, Herb," I said. "That's the first intelligent remark I've heard in some time."

I folded the paper and wriggled around in the seat. Buses are like candy bars, I thought. The price goes up and the size goes down. Each new bus seem to have less leg room and a lower headrest that its predecessor, so that you had to be a contortionist to take a nap.