"Of course, everyone has his monster, the personification of everything he really fears. A sort of Dracula in daylight!"
Part 1, Chap. 1, p. 10

"You know, everyone I know is kind of furtive, kind of beat. They all go along the street like they were guilty of something, but didn't believe in guilt."
Part 1, Chap. 4, p. 36

"So I've decided that life is holy in itself, life itself! All the details, everything."
Part 2, Chap. 4, p. 121

"The music came from the same all-night program of wild jazz that midnight unleashed to all the city's hidden, backstairs pads where feverish young people gathered over their intoxicants to listen and not to listen, or hipsters woke, like some mute and ancient dead, to have their first cigarette of the 'day.'"
Part 2, Chap. 6, p. 134

"Where's the end of the night? That's all I was thinking. The whole long night. But go have a drink...