"It began as a mistake.
"It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I had this leather sack on my back and was hiking around at my leisure. What a job, I thought. Soft! They only gave you a block or two and if you managed to finish, the regular carrier would give you another block to carry, or maybe you'd go back and the soup would give you another, but you just took your time and shoved those Xmas cards in the slots." Chapter 1, pg. 13.

"When The Stone was finished and had hung up, I told him:
" 'You shouldn't suck up to that woman. She's got a dirty mind. Half the mothers in America, with their precious big pussies...