Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from the same mug. I don't want some rusty '73 Ford Pinto with a factory-defective gas tank that causes it to explode when it's rear-ended in the parking lot of the supermarket. So why do I keep looking for Pintos?

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.