You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
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.
Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.
Work will drive you crazy if you let it.
Hurried business is bad business.
I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.