I nipped into this sanctuary late this afternoon and soon…

“Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")”

— John Collier

“Why no," he said, reasonably, and looked at his watch, "we can wait another hour if you like. We can become friends then. Or…

— James Baldwin

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a…

— Leon Wieseltier

“It is closing time in the gardens of the West.”

— Cyril Conolly

“Their mother died early, and not in a good way. Not that anyone dies in a good way, Tin footnotes to himself, but there…

— Margaret Atwood

“Sometimes we'd sit on that bench for hours, talking about nothing much and blowing smoke rings into the air, and we'd see them teetering…

— Máire T. Robinson

“When there are two men left in the bar at closing time, and one of them coldcocks the other, it is not equivalent in…

— Anonymous

“I’m glad he’s staying, the barmaid thought. Although she could take care of herself, witnessing how calmly this officer was dealing with these two…

— Dan Brown

“I saw and heard all sorts of things in my fever; I was riding a merry-go-round, I wanted to get off but I couldn’t.…

— Grass Gunter

“The moral is, never be sorry for a waiter. Sometimes when you sit in a restaurant, still stuffing yourself half an hour after closing…

— George Orwell

“They filed out into the cold night at closing time, heading for Begbie's place with a carry-out. They'd already spent twelve hours drinking and…

— Irvine Welsh

I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til…

— Ed Kowalczyk

“In previous years, they might have spent hours in the cellar, on their feet, never seeing the time go by nor feeling their legs,…

— Laurence Cossé

In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles…

— Julia Glass

“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one…

— Marilyn Johnson