Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
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.
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.