New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

We haven't slept together. But we've napped