"It was Christmas Eve in the studio. By eleven o'clock in the morning, Santa Claus had called on most of the huge population according to each one's deserts." Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish, p. 1

"Pat Hobby could always get on the lot. He had worked there fifteen years on and off—chiefly off during the past five—and most of the studio police knew him." A Man in the Way, p. 13

"He was on a 'polish job', about the only kind he got nowadays. He was to repair a messy sequence in a hurry, but the word 'hurry' neither frightened nor inspired him for Pat had been in Hollywood since he was thirty—now he was forty-nine." "Boil Some Water—Lots of It", p. 21

"The words fell wild and unreal on Pat's burdened soul. But even though he now knew at first hand what came...