Started Early, Took My Dog

There was some kind of exchange at work in the universe that he didn’t understand

She arrived early and speared toothpicks, charged with pineapple and cubed cheese, into the pale green skull of a cabbage

Of course, everything was subjective. No true fixed point in the world. Tracy was beginning to understand that

‘We share eighty-five per cent of our genes with dogs,’ the barber said.

‘Well, we share fifty per cent of our DNA with bananas,’ Jackson said, ‘so I don’t think that really means anything.’

having witnessed too often the havoc wrought by beauty without truth

He was a prof at the university, full of hot air and cold calculation

It was a woman’s job to try and improve a man. It was a man’s job to resist improvement. That was the way the world worked, always had, always would.

Gambling, drinking, whoring – the three pillars of western civilization

Julia had once told him that the ideal partner was one that you could keep in a cupboard and take out when you felt like it. Jackson thought it unlikely that there were women out there who would acquiesce to being kept in a cupboard. Didn’t stop men trying to find them though

In synopsis, Jackson ’s life always sounded more dramatic than the mild ennui of living it every day