“God helps those who strut their stuff.”

“The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that theyre soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.”

“Nothing in life or love slipped easily into the tidy little box of his expectations.”

“The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.”

“Pain today, pussy tomorrow.”

“See, my aim is not to survive but to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying that was one hell of a youth and everything I do I do in orde...”

“There is pleasure in reading a version of myself I know in my heart could never exist, since mine is not an iron mind coldly calculating every possible option and outcome. Instead I am a businessma...”

“They caught up their horses and turned back. Nothing moved in that high wilderness save the wind. They did not speak. They were men of another time for all that they bore christian names and they h...”

“The chairs - turned towards one another in groups of twos and threes - seemed like the seats of ghosts in close conversation with one another. There were sets of two chairs - very close to one anot...”

“Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would ...”