Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread.

This incompleteness is all we have.