I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

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

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.