But when you’re depressed, it shows all over you, even the way you light a cigarette.

But right away I got a boner thinking about the boner I would get that night.

A bell over the door tinkled. Ralph almost wept from the sound of it.

“Christ!” The word leaped out of him. “But you’ve always been that way, Marian!” And he knew at once that he had uttered a new and profound truth.

Not since he was a kid, it seemed to him, had he known what it was to be free from worry and worse.

He tried to see everything, save it for later.

Her eyes were large and seemed to take in everything at a glance.

The waiter looked amazed and then perplexed.

He did not know what to do. Not just now, he thought, not just in this, not just about this, today and tomorrow, but every day on earth.