Claire, if you don’t move, I will have served two tours of duty only to die in this bed.

She came out of nowhere like a two-by-four against the skull, knocking all common sense out of him and turning him into a walking woody.

If there was anything he’d learned in his life, it was to fight fire with fire, and if that didn’t work, piss on the fire to put it out.

Bring it on.

Boys have penises.” At that moment, Michael was very aware that he, himself, was a boy.

Eve was good, he conceded, adding the file he’d just finished to the growing stack on the floor at his feet. Given the proper education and training, she could be great. He stretched the kinks...

For God’s sake, Helen, I stood in front of my peers and basically said, ‘Look, chaps, I can’t vote because all I can think about is kissing that brilliant woman who was just in here.’...

That’s the way I run my business. Up to now, there hasn’t been any overlap.

He’d said he couldn’t let her go. She couldn’t figure out how they could stay together.

Oh, I’m sure it is crazy. But isn’t that our thing? Or have you gotten boring now?