Smoking is extremely hazardous to you and those around you" it said on the label. He glanced around. The few termites that might thrive down here could probably handle it.

Carl: Do I happen to see a twinkle in your eye, or do you always look so fantastic Lis?Lis: Carl dear, the twinkle in my eye is reserved for my husband and children, When are you going to accept that?Carl: I'll accept it the day the light vanishes and eternal darkness swallows me up along with the rest of the earth.

So, I suppose you just have a sense of where it is. And you don’t have to be precise, is that it?”“Allah is great. He has such wide shoulders.”Carl stuck out his lower lip in a pout. Of course Allah did. What was he thinking, anyway?

Assad: 'I have written it just down here.'He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have meant it was going to snow in the Lofoten Islands in the morning.

Was she pregnant then?' asked Assad. Judging by the number of family members in his photos, it was a feminine condition with which he was quite familiar.