“We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!”

“Leo could run pretty fast when someone was trying to kill him. Sadly, he’d had a lot of practice.”

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.”

“Oh, Jake,' Brett said, 'we could have had such a damned good time together.'
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
'Yes,' I said. 'Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

“We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.”

“What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.”

“Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me?”

“Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.”

“Oh, Jake,' Brett said, 'we could have had such a damned good time together.”