"I would like something more concrete than a promise.
He gives private basketball lessons to young players but would like something more structured.
"The main reason I'd like something more affordable is, to be blunt, the conditions of my building," he said.
I think I speak for us all when I say that I would like something more conservative when it comes to planet-eating black holes.
"It feels eccentric and odd here in New York," he said from his open doorway, "like something more typical of Paris.
Of those 21 former prisoners of war, 17, who had been tortured by their Iraqi captors, would like something more tangible.
Gastropubs had started cropping up in the early nineties, when a generation of young British chefs decided they'd like something more appealing to accompany their two pints of lager than a packet of crisps.
But if you'd like something more rhapsodic on your weekend-drug-reading list, you might revisit Oliver Sacks's remembrances of his own experiments with chemical transcendence, published here last summer.
Of course you can use whatever kind of ribbon you like, something more fancy than mine if you prefer, or even a piece of elastic, which would help it stay on your wrist without you having to tie it.
Or would you like something more complex?' And they'd say, 'Oh, we'd like God to be really big on guilt.' And I'd say, 'O.K., how does Wednesday sound to you as a sacred day?' " Writing comics afforded Gaiman his great opportunity to invent a cosmology.
They can't quite afford, nor are the interested in, a $100,000 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, but they'd like something more sophisticated than a Ford or more hip than a Pontiac from General Motors.
