Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry

In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.