- Never count on the other person to be just like you. At the next table, one man was nearly silent for the entire hour, and the other would not shut up. Luckily, the wind worked its way along the dark shore and the waves hit the sand like a slow metronome, so I only heard so much of his monologue.#
- People in Madison are peace-lovers, he said. You can't talk with them.#
- People in the Twin Cities are so nice, he said, I feel like slashing their tires.#
- Before the nuclear exchange, he said, I expect there will be a two-week window. That will give us time to fly our kids to South America.#
- The only problem is that it's hard to know if you're in the two-week window.#
- He wanted very good brandy for the two of them. He wanted the brandy in chilled snifters. He wanted a different brandy in each snifter. He wanted to order his colleagues drink at the end of the meal. After the snifters arrived, and the brandy trembled and shimmered in the subdued light of the café, he said, I ordered the better label for you.#
- Never count on the other person to be just like you. At the next table, one man was nearly silent for the entire hour, and the other would not shut up. Luckily, the wind worked its way along the dark shore and the waves hit the sand like a slow metronome, so I only heard so much of his monologue.#
- People in Madison are peace-lovers, he said. You can't talk with them.#
- People in the Twin Cities are so nice, he said, I feel like slashing their tires.#
- Before the nuclear exchange, he said, I expect there will be a two-week window. That will give us time to fly our kids to South America.#
- The only problem is that it's hard to know if you're in the two-week window.#
- He wanted very good brandy for the two of them. He wanted the brandy in chilled snifters. He wanted a different brandy in each snifter. He wanted to order his colleagues drink at the end of the meal. After the snifters arrived, and the brandy trembled and shimmered in the subdued light of the café, he said, I ordered the better label for you.#