Anthony Fawcett: "So this is it. I’m jobless. Barely one year into work and I’ve been fired."

Matthew Lebowitz: "When Michael is doing his best to forget about Clara, he will decide finally that she looked more like an extraterrestrial..."

He didn’t want to put money into the hand of a woman who was as well educated as he.

"Jimmy launched into a chain gang of childish lullabies..."

Mollica pinched the bridge of his nose between thumb and forefinger, stifling a curt response. This was not the city.

Mo and Claire heard Nicky rummaging through his desk drawer, happily whistling “My Woman from Tokyo.”

Things happen in cities. That is what Frances meant to say. Or at least, later she thought she might have meant to say that...

A hypodermic needle filled with a cloudy, yellowish liquid appears on the banister. It glows like a dim light-bulb...

My hope was to tell a story that had nothing to do with sex...

After ten more fast minutes down the bumpy highway... a weathered sign on our left reads, “La Hacienda, one km.”

Suddenly it seemed women had ceased to exist. On the right was a sign warning how the penalty for drug-trafficking is death.

Chae Sweet: "Some things, like Nurse Mahoney dying alone, had to be taken as they came."