“You know what people who go to nude beaches look like?”

“Tell me.”

“People who shouldn’t go to nude beaches.”

“Is Chili Palmer joining the tour?’

“I wasn’t told”

“Ask Nick for me.”

About a minute went by. Now he heard Nick saying, “Tell him if he goes near Chili Palmer I’ll see that he suffers excruciating pain and will never fucking walk again in his life.”

And, then Robin’s voice: “Nick said to tell you that if you go near Chili Palmer he’ll have your legs broken.”

“Why couldn’t he say it like that?”

“He reads, but the wrong books.”

Elmore Leonard, Be Cool.