“ Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede. ”
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
~ Jay Mcinerney
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.
You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.
