Quoteables

"$95.2 million"

The selling price last week for Pablo Picasso's "Dora Maar au chat"-according to the auction house Sotheby's. The winning bid, which came from an anonymous buyer, was the second-highest amount ever paid for a painting at an auction, surpassed only by the $104 million paid for Picasso's "Garcon a la pipe" two years ago.

"It's not working."

Double murderer Joseph Clark to Ohio Department of Corrections officials who had tried to administer a lethal injection to him on May 2. The vein they were using had collapsed. A second attempt succeeded.

"Each ultrasound, they kept finding another child."

Rich Fontana of New Brunswick, N.J., on discovering that his wife Sharon was pregnant with triplets, their second set of triplets in two years. The triplets, conceived without the help of fertility drugs, were born premature but healthy last week. Twelve years ago, a doctor told Mrs. Fontana that she was infertile.

"Can't we make up a better injury than that?"

Kansas City Royals director of minor league operations Shaun McGinn on AAA player Kerry Robinson leaving a game with chest muscle spasms caused by laughing too hard at the antics of a youth team during a pre-game promotion.