A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated ...and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk. So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bobby read his future in women; his girls were omens, changes in the weather, and he'd sit all night in the Gentleman Loser waitin...g for the season to lay a new face down in front of him like a card.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chrome: her pretty childface smooth as steel, with eyes that would have been at home at the bottom of some deep Atlantic trench, c...old gray eyes that lived under terrible pressure. They say she cooked her own cancers for people who crossed her, rococo custom variations that took years to kill you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You could see his sunglasses scanning those faces as they passed, and he must have decided that Rikki's was the one he was waiting... for, the wild card and the luck changer. The new one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They wore the expression men always wore when they watched you dance, staring real hard but locked up inside themselves at the sam...e time, so their eyes told you nothing at all and their faces, in spite of the sweat, might have been carved from something that only looked like flesh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted ...strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Found this picture of Angie laughing in a restaurant with some other people, everybody pretty but beyond that it was like they had... this glow, not really in the photograph but it was there anyway, something you feel. Look, she said to Lanette, showing her the picture, they got this glow. It's called money, Lanette said.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »