Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

We are formed by what we desire

So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.