What do you call those things you find at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful Gangsters?

He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

I don't negotiate with gangsters. I call on Fujimori to step down tomorrow.

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

Gravity holds the stones in place. That way, they hold each other in place, fit best and look best.