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

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

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.

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.

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

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

To be a man, a boy must see a man