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

Hurried business is bad business.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

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.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.