Character: Meyer Landsman

Are you married, detective?
- I was married.
The marriage broke up?
- I think that is the best definition. - For a second, he thinks. - Perhaps it is.

The return of the prodigal son pleases all, except the one who is asleep in his pajamas.

- To sleep in socks and shorts... she says. - Something wrong with you.
- I think an attack of acute depression, "he says," struck me last night.