Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

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

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

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.