The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.
There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.
Home is where you hang your hangover.
...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.