She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. - Raymond Chandler

He explained civilization to me. I mean how it looks to him. He's going to let it go on a little while longer. But it better be careful and not interfere with his private life. If it does, he's apt to make a phone call to God and cancel the order.

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. I went back to my desk, dropped the bottle of whiskey back into the drawer, shut the drawer and sat down again.

A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.