"The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth but perhaps of dreams." (24)

"The sun was down which made it night time, but Harry and Tyrone were bugged with all the lights that stabbed and slashed and skewered their eyeballs...Daytime is a drag...you look forward to the night when you can get some relief from the assaults of the day and start to come alive." (15)

"The voice was so bright and cheery and so enthusiastic and real that she turned toward the TV set to see if the voice was coming from there."
"For the first time in memory she was unaware of the television." (25-26)

"People getting high, getting higher, or wondering why they weren't high yet."
"They could always go to work some other time, but...