Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.
The Virgin Suicides: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993) - ISBN: 9781429960441
