"Paw in paw, stepping in unison...what music can they possibly hear inside their heads as they dance under the full moon and the Aurora Australis, as they dance in brilliant silence?" (Brilliant Silence, p. 18)

"It isn't dawn yet. It's still a gradation of night, but night with tomorrow already luminous behind it like the silver behind the glass of a cobalt mirror." (Gold Coast, p. 42)

"Then I was swept along by the passengers getting off the bus and now I'm sorry I lost him so suddenly because there were only 7,400 pesos in his wallet and I'd have gotten more out of him if we'd been alone. He seemed affectionate. And very generous." (Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye, p. 76)

"I brought a halt to my glorious military career and entered into the disenchanted paper shadows of America where failure is a bounced check or a...