“drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details”
“Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime...”
“This is the kind of life I've had. Drunk, and in charge of a bicycle, as an Irish police report once put it. Drunk with life, that is, and not knowing where off to next. But you're on your way before dawn. And the trip? Exactly one half terror, exactly one half exhilaration.”
“Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.”
“It's exhilarating, Abbey. You exhilarate me"-Caspian”
“They are conversation-openers in the arcane femine language of Shoe.”