It's so disturbing that someone could be so bold and desperate that they needed to do that.

It's very disappointing. I haven't decided. We'll see.

People would give their extra change. Little kids would bring pennies in.

He was counting on every body being distracted, concentrating on what they were doing.

I have not made up my mind about Marian (another M! I heard the supervisor call her name), this time it won't be love, it would just be for the interest of the thing . . . and the clothes would fit. Of course I would make it clear from the start who's boss and what I expect . . . but it is still just an idea.

He had seen the insides of jaggedly ripped-open dead people. He knew, for instance, what brains looked like spilling out of somebody's head. In the context of this, much of what went on in normal life seemed wholly and disturbingly ridiculous.