some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.