I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

Hurried business is bad business.

It is true, I thought. I am living a life.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.