“As it was, he surfed his way towards daylight on a couch infested with cigarette burns and drunken dreams.”
“He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.We were about to become cigarettes.”
“When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind - and it's roper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.”
“We burn daylight.”
“Come, we burn daylight, ho!”
“The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.”