" Too damn long.’ He put his coat on an empty chair, settled a slim attaché case on top of it, and placed a narrow-brimmed gray hat on top of the attaché case. He seated himself across the table from me and dug his lucky charm out of his pocket. I watched him set it spinning. ‘Too goddamned long, Matt,’ he told the coin. "

― Lawrence Block , Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)