But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.