"What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?"

"If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke agai…"

"Stick with it, Xanthus. There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands."

"Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week …"

"There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance."

"No child, I think, can walk through a common market or slaughter-house without receiving moral injury; nor …"

"If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fau…"