"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying somet…"

"How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he t…"

"No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough."

"The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard.…"

"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up…"

"The TV news was about the Laos Invasion-a series of horrifying disasters: explosions and twisted wreckage, men fleein…"

"Order some golf shoes," I whispered. "Otherwise, we'll never get out of this place alive..."

"It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for…"

"What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being kille…"

"It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the midd…"