Intense snake fear is prevalent in both humans and other primates. Humans and monkeys learn snake fear more easily than fear of most other stimuli through direct or vicarious conditioning (Ohman and Mineka, 2003).

Kid, I like women too, but not that way. You need time to get acquainted, drink a little, talk a little. In the cat wagon you got to get it over with and out in five minutes, no time to button your pants.

They learned nothing in their lives to prepare them for this time period; they were choosing to mop up the silliness of their past and shape it into something to promote survival.

In law school he'd fallen in love with her milk makers—she had enormous breasts—and she hadn't had a dry day in ten years. Their capacity seemed inexhaustible.