Fatigue was a drug as well as a poison, and Stahr apparently derived some rare almost physical pleasure from working lightheaded with weariness.

“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between v…”

“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold yo…”

“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is…”

“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills bu…”