Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.