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

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

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.