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

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

It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

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

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

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.