“There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.”
“I’m immune to euphoria.”
“My religion is euphoria.”
“Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive time of day - a feeling that alone was enough to make getting drunk worthwhile.”
“It was what remained to a relationship after the first euphoria of the romance had faded.”
“I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214”