If someone had been holding the line on keeping houses intact, Pleasant Hill would be viewed as a gem. You'd have a whole different set of people living here.

Out of about 150 clients, we've had two or three who called and are buying houses and needed to get to some of their money.

I lived here once," the author said after a moment.
"Here? For a long time?"
"No. For just a little while when I was young."
"It must have been rather cramped."
"I didn't notice."
"Would you like to try it again?"
"No. And I couldn't if I wanted to."
He shivered slightly and closed the windows. As they went downstairs, the visitor said, half apologetically: "It's really just like all houses, isn't it?"
The author nodded.
"I didn't think it was when I built it, but in the end I suppose it's just like other houses after all.

What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.