Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.

I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.