I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I'd do the writing thing.

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

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?

That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.