Quotes from Edward Riche

For all the screen credits on pictures good and bad, and despite his above-the-line Hollywood friends, the fleeting tabloid television infamy of his drugs arrest had landed him back at Caines buying smokes. "Coke, a smoke, and a raisin square," they used to say; townie comfort food, stuff you could gum.

If a mere dog's life was meaningless, exactly how could it be felt so profoundly?

It can't be easy, living in the park." "Maybe it was a greater effort being who he was.

So much of the day was pointless repetitions, stacking things up and then knocking them down so you could pick them up again, driving back and forth over the same roads.