I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.