Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.