#172

You want someone made of sterner stuff. You want as it were a sparring partner, someone with whom you can quarrel happily, with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick but will be there with the return of a wallop.

#160

'Have you ever been in prison?'
Not yet.
And then a very difficult one. 'Are you a lunatic?'
Jimmy hesitated. The ink dried on his pen. He was wondering.