I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
- Walter MatthauI was a "bookie" kid. I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you`re actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn`t find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
- Neil Gaiman