"'This place is a toilet,' he said as we entered Northampton. He wore a baseball cap and drove with his elbow out the window. 'It's not the college girls, though they're bad enough. Look at Tugboat Annie over there, the size of her. She's so big it would only take eleven of her kind to make a dozen. But that's fat - that's not health. That's cheeseburgers.' And he stuck his head out the window and hollered, 'That's cheeseburgers!"' Chapter 1, pg. 4
"'They sell ice - ten pounds for a half a buck. But water's as free as air. Those dingbats are selling water! Water's the new growth industry. Mineral water, spring water, sparkling water."' Chapter 1, pg.4
"[Allie Fox:] 'Would you really have taken off your shoes and showed that cop your healthy toes?' "'You asked.....
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