Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Vintage Classics)

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

just the low ceiling of heavy clouds pressing down on everything.

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.

“I’m the one going crazy,” he said and then nodded his head in agreement.

“That’s Finch,” his dad said admiringly. “He’s been in bankruptcy at least twice. Look at that house.” But bankruptcy is a company collapsing utterly, executives cutting their wrists and throwing themselves from windows, thousands of men on the street.

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

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

Then suddenly he knew! His mind buckled. For a minute he could only stare dumbly at his hands. He knew! His mind roared with the knowing.

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