A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.