You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.

“Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.”

“It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.--Mick Ballou”

“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself…”

“Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capaci…”