a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.
Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.