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

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

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